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Royal Ontario Museum
28th Annual Report
July 1977 - June 1978
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Members of the Board as of June 30, 1978
Mr. Sydney M. Hermant, B.A., LL.D.
Chairman
Mr. Jack C. Barrow
Mr. Ernest A. Du Vernet, Q.C.
Mr. John W. Eleen
Mr. H. Donald Guthrie, Q.C.
Vice-Chairman
Mr. A. Maxwell Henderson, LL.D., F.C.A.
Mme A. Martin
Mrs. G.R. Matte
Mrs. W.L.C. McGill
Mrs. W.M. Myers
Mr. David F. Quan, P. Eng.
Mrs. E. Redelmeier, M.A.
Mrs. J.A. Rhind
Mrs. R.H. Rohmer
Mr. Reg Wheeler
Mr. Peter G. White, M.B.A.
Mr. Joseph A. Whitmore
Mr. G.D. deS. Wotherspoon,
D.S.O., C.St.J., E.D., C.D., D.Sc. (Mil), Q.C.
Ex-Officio Members
Dr. John R. Evans
President
University of Toronto
Mrs. L.S. Paikin
Chairman, Governing Council
University of Toronto
Dr. James E. Cruise
Director
Secretary
F.J. Dunbar, C.D.
Additional Members of Board Committees 1977-78
Mrs. R.J. Boxer
Mrs. E.A.C. Campbell
Mr. R.K. Martin
Mrs. W.O. Randall
Mrs. E.J. Stone
Honorary Trustees
Mr. W.M. Vacy Ash
Dr. L.G. Berry
Dr. V.V. Bladen
Mr. Henry Borden, Q.C.
Mr. G.E. Boyce
Mrs. H. A. Bruce
Mrs. W.H. Clarke
Mr. Nicola Colangelo
Mr. R.G. Cole
Mr. J. Harold Crang
Mrs. D.C. Early
Mrs. A.J. Grout
Mrs. C.L. Gundy
Mrs. W.B. Harris
Dr. T.A. Heinrich
Mr. J.E. Langdon
Miss Ella Martin
Mr. Beverley Matthews, C.B.E., Q.C.
Mr. Richard C. Meech, Q.C.
Rt. Hon. Roland F. Michener,
P.C., C.C., C.M.M. C.D., LL.D., Q.C.
Dr. W.S. Monk
Prof. Fernand Ouellet
Mr. Hugh Pryce-Jones
Mrs. W.O. Randall
Mr. Walter J. Reeves
Mrs. D.S. Rickerd
Mr. W.S.R. Seyffert
Dr. O.M. Solandt, C.C., O.B.E., C.D.
Mr. Clair Stewart
Mrs. E.J. Stone
Senator J.A. Sullivan
Dr. W.E. Swinton
Mr. Noah Torno, M.B.E.
Mr. H.M. Turner
Mrs. O.D. Vaughan
Mr. D.C. Webster
Col. D.B. Weldon, M.C., E.D.
Cover: From a cast of a painted relief in the funerary temple
of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri, about 1495 b c
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Report of the Board of Trustees
of the Royal Ontario Museum
To Her Honour, the Lieutenant Governor-in-Council:
It is a pleasure to report that your Royal Ontario Museum
continues to be a very exciting place; morale is good and we look
to the future with confidence and enthusiasm.
As you know, I was appointed Chairman of the Board of Trustees
on January 1, 1978. Although as a member of the Board of Gover¬
nors of the University of Toronto I was directly involved when the
separation of the Museum from the University took place in 1968,
my only other association with the Museum was that I had been a
life member for more than 25 years and was well aware that it is
recognized as one of the great museums in Canada and
throughout the world. I was very proud and very pleased to
receive this appointment. My only reservation concerned the
provisions in the Royal Ontario Museum Act for the appointment
of members of the Board and the designation of its Chairman.
Thus it is with particular interest that I now report that in March of
this year a submission was made to the Ministry of Culture and
Recreation (with the support of all the constituencies within the
Museum: the staff, the administration, and the Board) recommend¬
ing changes to the Act which would provide for the election of
more members of the Board by the members of the Museum, for
the election of some of its members by the Board itself, and for
the election of the Chairman by the Board from among its
members. We are hoping this submission may receive favourable
consideration and be implemented at an early date.
The Museum community and the public whom we serve owe a
great debt of gratitude to my immediate predecessor, Brig. Gen.
Gordon D. deS. Wotherspoon, D.S.O., C.St.J., E.D., C.D., D.Sc.
(Mil), Q.C., who gave able and distinguished leadership from July
1, 1974, until June 30, 1977. We continue to benefit from
Mr. Wotherspoon's enduring interest and participation both as an
Honorary Trustee and as Chairman of our Investment Committee.
During the interim period from June 30, 1977, until the date of my
appointment, Mr. H. Donald Guthrie, Q.C., the Vice-Chairman of
the Board was Acting Chairman. The Museum was and is indebted
to Mr. Guthrie for his dedication, his active leadership, and his
participation in all phases of our activity, particularly in our
Renovation and Expansion Project.
At the end of this Museum year, six members of our Board have
completed their term of office and happily have accepted appoint¬
ments as Honorary Trustees. They are Mr. John Eleen of Toronto,
Mrs. Maureen Myers of Chatham, Mrs. Ruth McGill of Brantford,
all of whom have been members of the Board since 1972;
Mr. Gordon D. deS. Wotherspoon of Toronto, a member since
1974; and Mme Jacqueline Martin of Ottawa and Mr. A.M.
Henderson of Toronto, members since 1975. Dr. John Evans, Presi¬
dent of the University of Toronto, has been succeeded by
Dr. James M. Ham, who thus becomes an ex-officio member of the
Board. Four new members have been appointed by the Lieutenant-
Governor-in-Council effective July 1, 1978, and we welcome
Mr. Richard M. Ivey, Q.C., of London, Ontario; and Mrs. Linda
Camp, Miss Elizabeth Leitch, Lt. Col. G.F. Levenston, M.B.E., all of
Toronto. Mr. Ronald L. MacFeeters of Toronto was elected to the
Board by the members of the Museum according to the provisions
of the present act. In addition to attending monthly meetings,
Board members serve on various standing committees and devote
much time and effort to the well-being of the Museum.
During the past several months arrangements have been made to
install computer services which will facilitate the production of
accurate operating figures from all departments in time for review
at monthly Board meetings.
One of our great sources of strength and encouragement is the
large number of dedicated volunteers, who serve as co-opted
members of Board committees, participate in various phases of
Museum activities such as providing instruction at the Saturday
Morning Club, act as tour guides, do volunteer work in many of
the curatorial departments, man information booths, and act as
receptionists. Without these reliable volunteers the Museum could
not possibly serve the public as faithfully and as well as it does.
At our last meeting of the year, a decision was made by the Board,
after consultation with the Minister of Culture and Recreation, to
proceed with the next phase of our Renovation and Expansion
Project, that is, the construction and occupation of the vitally im¬
portant Curatorial Centre in the south courtyard. This decision was
taken despite the fact that as of this date we have not received
any financial commitment from the Federal Government or other
levels of government, other than the generous capital support
from the Provincial Government of Ontario and the continuing
cooperation and assistance of the Ministry of Culture and Recre¬
ation. Our decision to proceed therefore was based on our
confidence in our private sector financial campaign under the very
able direction of Mrs. K.L. (Mona) Campbell. An excellent start has
already been made and the campaign will be in full swing in the
early fall. We are optimistic that there will be some substantial
commitment from the Federal Government and other levels of
government well in time for us to continue our planning and then
to proceed with the scheduled construction of the Terrace
Galleries and the necessary renovations of our present building so
that our project may be finished as scheduled in 1982. It is
noteworthy that this will be the first addition to the main Museum
building since 1932. The project will generate an estimated 1,000
man-years of work on the construction site alone, with the
equivalent of 250 direct jobs and many more associated ones
over a four-year period.
Another very exciting area of expansion being considered by our
Board is the possible acquisition of the Lillian Massey Building,
formerly used by the University of Toronto. A study is being
undertaken by our Director and his staff to determine the specific
uses to which these facilities would be put by the Museum, it
being clearly understood that this would in no way replace or
interfere with our main Renovation and Expansion Project. We are
at present exploring means of financing this plan and have re¬
ceived great encouragement from a number of those who share
our deep concern for and emotional involvement with the
building and the traditional activities associated with it and the
famous name that it bears.
Your Museum is in good hands with a talented, charming Director,
a dedicated curatorial staff, competent administrators, and willing,
able, and reliable volunteers. An increasing number of citizens of
all ages continue to visit our main building, the Planetarium, and
the Canadiana Building. Many communities throughout the Prov¬
ince of Ontario and Canada enjoy the travelling exhibitions, school
displays, and other facilities provided through our Extension
Services Department.
We thank you for your confidence, and we assure you of our in¬
tention to exercise the powers given to the Board under the Royal
Ontario Museum Act to the best of our ability.
On behalf of the Board of Trustees
Sydney Hermant Toronto, Ontario
Chairman June 30, 1978
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Director's Report to
the Board of Trustees
It is an honour and a pleasure for me to report on the affairs of the
Royal Ontario Museum for the very productive year July 1, 1977,
to June 30, 1978, in accordance with paragraph 6 (c) of the Royal
Ontario Museum Act.
Our institutional priorities as I see them for the period 1978 to
1982 are to complete the ROM Renovation and Expansion Project
with maximum effectiveness and to present to the public as much
world-quality gallery display as our resources will permit. At the
same time we must maintain the quality and integrity of the ROM's
collections and scholarship and develop first-rate extension pro¬
grammes and procedures to ensure the preparation of a significant
number of travelling exhibitions of high standard each year.
In any large organization, changes come about both in manage¬
ment structure and in personnel. The Museum is no exception and
I mention but a few of these changes at this time.
With the retirement of Brig. Gen. G.D. deS. Wotherspoon from
the chairmanship of the Board of Trustees on June 30, 1977,
Mr. H. Donald Guthrie, Q.C., became Acting Chairman. I should
like to record my gratitude to Mr. Wotherspoon for the strong
support he afforded me in the two years it was my privilege to
work with him. My thanks go also to Mr. Guthrie for his outstand¬
ing service during what became a six-month interim period.
Dr. Allan Baker, Dr. Alan Emery, and Dr. Cuyler Young made im¬
portant contributions to the management of the Museum when, as
curatorial coordinators, they served on my own Advisory Commit¬
tee. During the year, they resigned from these duties and have
subsequently been concentrating on their departmental respon¬
sibilities in research and gallery planning. With the reduction in
size of my Advisory Committee, Mrs. Barbara Stephen, Mr. Joseph
Di Profio, Mr. Gordon Bristowe, and I reconstituted ourselves as
the Senior Management Team to work together to reach the many
decisions that have to be made each week. The internal complex¬
ities of the Royal Ontario Museum, coupled with management's
need to interact closely with various levels of government,
including officials of our own Ministry of Culture and Recreation as
well as of other ministries of the Government of Ontario, make
the work of the Senior Management Team fascinating.
The Geobotany Laboratory, its staff, and its collections were
transferred from the Department of Mineralogy and Geology to
the new Department of Botany. Dr. John H. McAndrews became
Curator-in-Charge of Botany.
In 1977-78 the Museum Board of Trustees gave its approval for
the separation from the Department of Entomology and indepen¬
dent development of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology, to
be established at such time as funds and space can be made
available for the operation of separate programmes. As a first step,
Dr. David Barr has been named Acting Head of the new department.
All membership services, including the operation of the Members'
Lounge, were consolidated this year under a new Manager of
Membership Services within the Programmes and Public Relations
Department.
Mr. Riley Moynes, Head of Education Services, was seconded to
the Ministry of Education for the year and Mr. Robert Madeley of
the Ministry staff has been working for the Museum in exchange.
Mr. Ron Miles has served as Acting Head of our Education Services
Department throughout the year.
Dr. Peter von Bitter became Associate Curator-in-Charge of the
Department of Invertebrate Palaeontology when Dr. Desmond
Collins requested such a change to enable him to devote more
time and effort to his research. Dr. Collins had served as Head of
the department for more than nine years.
Mr. Thomas Quirk, Curatorial Fellow in the Far Eastern Depart¬
ment, has been serving as Interim Head of the department with
the support of Dr. Nicholas B. Millet while the search for a new
head proceeds.
Dr. Peter Storck has been named Head of the newly established
Department of New World Archaeology. This department is
charged with responsibility for all ROM archaeological collections
and gallery displays from the Americas and for our archaeological
field research programme in North, Central, and South America.
The broader functions of the Office of the Chief Archaeologist are
the responsibility of a group known as the Committee for Field
Archaeology. Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham, Chief Archaeologist,
served as chairman of this committee for an interim period until its
first chairman, Dr. David M. Pendergast, took office in January.
The Board of Trustees has approved the establishment of an
Archaeology Endowment Fund, the proceeds from which would
be used for projects related to field archaeology, including excava¬
tions, publications, lectures, technical assistance, and the like. It is
hoped that the many friends and members of the Museum who
are interested in its archaeological programme will contribute
generously to this fund.
On June 30, 1978, Mr. Norman Green retired from the Planetarium
staff after ten years of service. Mr. Green came to us when the
Planetarium was established. His services to the institution have
been much appreciated. Mr. Green was among a number of the
Museum's staff who were awarded Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee
Medals this year. I was delighted to receive this honour myself,
along with Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham, Chief Archaeologist;
Dr. Loris Russell, Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology; and
Dr. Joseph A. Mandarino, Department of Mineralogy and Geology.
The Hawley Award for the best paper in the Canadian Mineralogist
in 1977 was awarded to Dr. F. Wicks, Department of Mineralogy
and Geology (with Dr. E.J.W. Whittaker of Oxford University). This
is the second year in a row that Dr. Wicks and Dr. Whittaker have
been so honoured.
After 39 years of service to the Museum, Miss Mary Campbell
retired from her position as secretary of the European Depart¬
ment. Miss Campbell will continue to assist the Museum with the
curating of our European coin collection. Another long-term
employee, Mrs. Jane McCormick, secretary of the Creek and
Roman Department, retired after 15 years of service. I am happy
to report that she, too, will continue to assist the Museum in a
part-time capacity in the Greek and Roman Department.
A number of scholars from institutions around the world are
Research Associates of the Royal Ontario Museum. New
associates appointed this year include Dr. J.G.E. Smith, Curator of
North American Ethnology at the Museum of the American Indian,
New York; and Mrs. Helen Ignatieff, who retired from the staff of
the Canadiana Department on July 1, 1977.
Similarly, ROM scholars are appointed as research associates by
other institutions. This year, Dr. J.A. Mandarino was appointed a
Research Associate, Buffalo Museum of Science.
A report on the activities of the Members' Committee is given in
the section of this report entitled "Support from Our Community".
I would like at this time, however, to express my sincere apprecia-
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DIRECTOR
J.E. Cruise
CURATORIAL
EDUCATION & COMMUNICATIONS ADMINISTRATION & FACILITIES
Associate Director-Curatorial
B. Stephen
-Office of the Chief
- Botany
-Conservation
Archaeologist
A.D. Tushingham
J.H. Me Andrews
E. Phillimore
-Entomology
_ Library & Archives
- Canadiana
D.B. Webster
D. Barr
E. Wilburn
-Ichthyology &
- Preparators
- Egyptian
Herpetology
V. Peverley
N.B. Millet
E.J. Crossman
_ Registration
- Ethnology
-Invertebrate
S. Tanner*
H. Fuchs
“European
Palaeontology
P. von Bitter
H. Hickl-Szabo
-Far Eastern
-Invertebrate Zoology
D. Barr*
T. Quirk*
-Greek & Roman
-Mammalogy
R.L. Peterson
N. Leipen
- New World
-Mineralogy & Geology
J.A. Mandarino
Archaeology
-Ornithology
P.L. Storck
A.J. Baker
-Textiles
-Planetarium
J. Vollmer
T. Clarke
“West Asian
“Vertebrate
L. Levine
Palaeontology
C. McGowan
- Laboratory of Analytical
Systematics
G. Wiggins
(Project Coordinator)
Assistant Director
). Di Profio
- Education Services
R. Miles*
_ Exhibit Design Services
L. Render
- Extension Services
A. Foss
-Members' Committee
E. Sieniewicz
-Museology and Ontario
Museums Support &
Advisory Service
W.M. Tovell
Assistant Director
C.C.G. Bristowe
-Computer Services
E.P. McGann*
_ Financial Services
W.M. Takaki
- Personnel Services
L.M. Roe
_ Revenue Services
R E. Deslslets
_ Support Services
J.H. Harvey
-Programmes &
Public Relations
D.A. Young
-Publication Services
J. Campsie
*Acting Head
30 June 1978
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tion to Mrs. Margaret Simpson who served as Chairman of the
Members' Committee this past year. My thanks and gratitude go
also to all those who have given her their support.
During the year, the Museum has had many distinguished visitors.
Our own Lieutenant Governor, the Honourable Pauline
McCibbon, has been most generous with her time on our behalf.
She opened the Canadiana exhibition, Early Canadian Faces; lent
her gracious patronage to PANAROMA, a fund-raising dinner
dance and fashion show sponsored by the very able women of the
Fashion Group of Toronto for the benefit of the Royal Ontario
Museum; and joined in the fun evening ROMARAMA. Lieutenant
Governor McGibbon was on hand again to meet and congratulate
the Ontario prize winners who took part in the Youth Heritage
Project entitled "Explore Your Heritage", sponsored by the
National Museums of Canada.
We were honoured when the Premier of Ontario, the Honourable
William G. Davis, entertained King Baudouin of the Belgians and
Queen Fabiola in the Chinese Wallpaintings Gallery. The royal
couple visited the Far Eastern galleries where a silver paper knife,
which had been engraved by Mr. Christopher Toogood of the
Conservation Department, was presented to Their Majesties as a
memento of their visit.
Among other distinguished visitors to the Museum were the Right
Honourable Edward Heath, M.B.E., of Great Britain; Mr. Anker
J0rgensen, Prime Minister of Denmark; and Mr. Guilio Andreotti,
President of the Council of Ministers of Italy.
During the course of the year, it was my privilege to speak to
several organizations, such as school groups, service clubs, and art
galleries. Talks given to the Canadian Clubs of Canada took me to
Bowmanville, Brantford, Chatham, Hamilton, Lindsay, North Bay,
Pembroke, and Thunder Bay. I also had the honour to address
the Empire Club of Canada at its Annual Meeting in May. On
most of these occasions I spoke about the Museum and our plans
for its future.
The entire ROM community welcomed the appointment in
January 1978 of Mr. Sydney M. Hermant as Chairman of the Board.
Mr. Hermant brings to the Museum the same enthusiasm and
diligence he brings to every task he undertakes, spending each
afternoon in his Museum office. On many Thursday afternoons
Mr. Hermant and I have been visiting departments in the Museum.
The staff are very responsive to and appreciative of this expression
of interest.
On June 14, 1978, the University of Toronto conferred upon
Mr. Hermant the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws
in recognition of his years of service to the University as a member
of the Senate and of the Board of Governors, and as a member
and latterly vice-chairman of the Governing Council. This well-
earned award brings honour to Dr. Hermant and his family. The
Royal Ontario Museum is privileged to have Dr. Hermant as Chair¬
man of its Board of Trustees.
In the general activities reports that follow, which are prepared for
the information of the Board, the staff, members of the Museum,
and the general public, a thematic approach has been taken to
provide a rational account of the institution's activities and to
eliminate the compartmentalized effect, with its inevitable duplica¬
tion, of a series of departmental reports.
James E. Cruise
Director
June 30, 1978
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Renovation and Expansion
The Museum's renovation and expansion project took some giant
steps forward in 1977-78. Three groups worked on specific
aspects of the project: the Project Office (overall management and
building construction), the Exhibits Communication Task Force
(planning of galleries), and the Private Sector Fund-raising Office.
Project Office
On July 1, 1977, the Museum was just completing the detailed
analysis of the facilities required in the new and renovated
buildings. It soon became evident that the total space requested
by the departments exceeded both what was possible on the site
and what the budget could provide. Nevertheless, the space
allocated to curatorial and curatorial service departments is 72%
greater, and the space for storage of research and study collec¬
tions 130% greater, than in the existing building.
Two events during the summer and fall of 1977 gave impetus to
the project. The City of Toronto passed two rezoning by-laws per¬
mitting the renovation and expansion project to take place on the
Museum site, and the Board of Trustees, on November 17, 1977,
approved the Final Planning Report. The report confirmed the
budget for the project and the design of the new areas, provided
layouts of the interior of the building, and determined the space to
be allocated to each department. The budget was established at
$44.4 million, which includes a special allowance for facilities
for the handicapped, to be supported by Wintario funds, and
also provides for an increase in the space available in the new
Terrace Galleries.
During the summer of 1977 advertisements were placed inviting
submissions for the construction management of the project. The
firm of E.G.M. Cape and Co. Ftd. was selected for this role. Sub¬
contractors in the various construction trades, selected through a
process of competitive tendering, will carry out the actual work.
During the year 1977-78, in preparation for construction of the
Curatorial Centre, scheduled to begin in August 1978, Exhibition
Flail, the Planetarium Annex, and some minor portions of the
existing building were demolished, a number of underground
services were installed or relocated on the site, and two new
substations were constructed. The plaza in front of the
Planetarium has been taken over by the construction manager for
contractors' offices and related construction activities. A hoarding,
which now hides the front of the Planetarium from the
street, bears the message "Support Your Museum's Renovation
and Expansion Campaign".
Exhibits Communication Task Force
The Exhibits Communication Task Force (ECTF) was established in
October 1976 to develop policies and plans for communication
and education through the galleries and exhibits. The first phase of
the work of the ECTF was a series of investigations, the findings of
which were presented in June 1977 in the report Opportunities
and Constraints.
During 1977-78 the ECTF carried out the second phase of its
work, which will be completed with the publication of its final
report, Mankind Discovering: A Plan for New Galleries at the Royal
Ontario Museum.
This two-volume document marks an important stage in the con¬
struction of an overall plan for galleries for the next 20 years.
Volume 1 describes the development of the plan, defines basic
communication objectives for each gallery area, and outlines the
process required to implement the plan. A fundamental principle
is the arrangement of collections in clusters of related displays. For
example, the Ancient World Cluster provides for an integrated
approach to the Egyptian, Creek and Roman, West Asian,
European, Prehistory, and relevant Textile collections. The cluster
principle will make it much easier to convey ideas and information
to the public.
Volume 2 of Mankind Discovering includes a thorough analysis
and documentation of studies undertaken during the year of
visitors' reactions both to the Museum as a whole and to 11 in¬
dividual galleries. We are confident that the information contained
in both the final report and the earlier Opportunities and
Constraints report will have significant impact on the Museum.
In addition to compiling its final report, the ECTF undertook a
number of related projects designed to provide information that
would be of value in implementing the plan.
In its first year, the task force had developed policies and objec¬
tives for the establishment of the Discovery Room, which opened
to the public in July 1977. The first project in 1977-78 was to test
the room's educational and communications effectiveness. Various
components of the room were evaluated and, as a result, some
modifications and additions were made. Much was learned about
the discovery approach to galleries that will be of value in
developing new galleries for the Museum. The fact that in its first
year the room attracted 64,352 visitors and operated close to
maximum capacity (82%) demonstrates the public's interest in this
type of gallery.
In a second project, the ECTF sponsored a Micro-Climate
Workshop organized by the Conservation Department, which
brought together a number of senior conservators, designers, and
engineers with museum experience. There had long been concern
about the lack of environmental control in the present building,
which is threatening the collections. In planning the renovated and
expanded Museum, it was realized that environmental controls
with fairly wide tolerances would suffice to protect most of the
collections but that some of the more fragile collections would
need the stability of special "micro-climates". The purpose of the
workshop was to devise practical ways of producing micro¬
climates for displaying museum material that cannot withstand
exposure to the fluctuations of prevailing gallery conditions. By
June 1978 the workshop's report, with recommendations for deal¬
ing with this problem, was in preparation.
The ECTF's third project during the year was the establishment of
the Gallery Development Team to begin work on a Life Sciences
Orientation Gallery. This interdisciplinary area will illustrate various
scientific principles and will provide visitors with an insight into the
interrelationships of the life sciences and a context within which to
view the other life sciences galleries.
With the publication of its final report, the work of the Exhibits
Communication Task Force will be completed. For the next stage
of the work the Exhibit and Gallery Communication Committee
has been formed. The main purpose of this committee is to
monitor the implementation of the Mankind Discovering report
and to ensure that its principles are followed in the development
of new galleries and exhibits.
Private Sector Fund-raising Office
The private sector fund-raising campaign is an essential part of the
Museum's renovation and expansion project. We were very
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fortunate that Mrs. K.L. (Mona) Campbell agreed to assume the
chairmanship of the Private Sector Fund-raising Committee.
Mrs. Campbell lost no time in establishing a Campaign Office, with
a small professional staff, in rent-free, off-site quarters. Canvassers
and other volunteer workers came forward in very generous
fashion, and by early May 1978 the time had come to launch
the campaign. Premier William Davis, together with the Minister of
Culture and Recreation, the Honourable Robert Welch; and
the Chairman of the Museum's Board of Trustees, Mr. Sydney
Hermant; and a large gathering of Honorary Trustees, Museum
Board members, canvassers, staff, and media representatives took
part in this celebration.
The campaign is off to a promising start, and the generosity of cor¬
porations, foundations, and individuals, already apparent in the
early stages, is proof of the high esteem in which the Museum is
held both locally and nationally. At this time, in this city, where
many fund-raising campaigns are being carried on concurrently,
the fact that the ROM has never before solicited funds from the
private sector is proving advantageous to its cause. However, this
fact alone would not produce favourable response without the
zeal, optimism, and determination of the fund-raising group.
In the eight weeks since the campaign was launched, the Royal
Ontario Museum has raised nearly $2 million towards its goal of
$10 million. This is especially encouraging, since money raised
through our fund-raising endeavours will be matched by Wintario.
In addition, it is anticipated that a large share of the $44.4 million
project will be underwritten by various levels of government. The
Government of Ontario has already pledged a grant of $12.75
million, over and above the Wintario commitment.
The first part of the fund-raising campaign has been directed to
major national companies. In the near future we shall be broad¬
ening our appeal to include other areas of potential support.
In this Annual Report of the Royal Ontario Museum, we would like
to record our gratitude to the Private Sector Fund-raising Commit¬
tee, whose members have given unstintingly of their time and
energy. Their names are listed below.
We are also very grateful to the following campaign volunteers
who are ably assisting the committee.
Mr. C.M. Black
Mr. T.D. Phillips
Mr. J.C. Bonnycastle
Mr. D.F. Quan
Mr. G.D. Butterfield
Mr. D. Ritchie
Mr. D.E. Cape
Mrs. D.P. Roberton
Mr. G.R. Chater
Mrs. R.H. Rohmer
Mr. W.O. North Cooper
Mr. R. H. Rohmer
Mr. T.R. Davies
Mr. G.R. Sharwood
Mr. D.L. Dennis
Mr. J.D. Taylor
Mr. J.F. Dixon
Mr. R.G. Thomson
Mr. J.N. Doyle
Mr. R.M. Thomson
Mr. D.M. Dunlap
Mr. R.G. Waldie
Mr. J.C. Eaton
Mr. B.M. Westwood
Mr. E.A. Goodman
Mr. W.P. Wilder
Mr. W.A. Heaslip
Mr. M.C. Wills
Mr. J.D. Herrick
Mr. M.H. Wilson
Mr. H.N.R. Jackman
Mr. S.R. Wilson
Mr. R.L. MacFeeters
Mr. D.J. Wright
Mr. J.W. McCutcheon
Mr. C.R. Younger
Mr. G.P. Osier
Campaign Management Committee
Honorary Chairmen:
Mr. Richard G. Meech
Mr. Noah Torno
Mr. Harold M. Turner
Mr. C.D. Wotherspoon
Honorary Treasurer:
Mr. R. Donald Fullerton
Campaign Chairman:
Mrs. K.L. Campbell
Members:
Mr. D.H. Atkins
Mr. J.C. Barrow
Mrs. J.E. Bradshaw
Dr. J.E. Cruise
Mr. J.H. Devlin
Mrs. Donald C. Early
Mr. H.R. Franks
Mr. H.D. Guthrie
Mr. P.G. Jeffrey
Mr. H.G. MacNeill
Mr. J.L. Murtagh
Mrs. W.O. Randall
Mrs. J.A. Rhind
Mr. J.A. Rhind
Mrs. N. Simpson
Mr. J.C. Thackray
Mr. P.G. White
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Preserving Our Heritage
The inscriptions flanking the entrance to the Museum remind us
that preserving “the record of nature through countless ages" and
"the arts of man through all the years" is central to our role and is
the basis for excellence in all our activities.
Curatorial departments continue to build and improve the wide
range of collections in their care by collecting, purchasing, and
encouraging donations of specimens and artifacts. Conservation of
artifacts and specimens and the devising of improved systems of
storage and documentation are also on going activities. In
addition, the renovation and expansion project has necessitated
much attention to problems of maintaining the safety and
accessibility of collections while they are being relocated amidst
all the construction activity.
Department of Entomology The collections were greatly enriched
by specimens of aquatic insects and mites and many thousands of
specimens of other insects collected in the field, and also by the
purchase of a fine collection of British Columbia butterflies.
Donations from the Fisheries Research Board in St. Andrews,
New Brunswick, and from the Ontario Ministry of Natural
Resources, and staff collections from marine environments
enhanced our invertebrate research collections.
Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology Significant acquisi¬
tions made this year were 487 specimens of amphibians and
reptiles from Bolivia; 720 specimens of fishes, amphibians, and
reptiles from Belize; 450 lots of fishes (about 9,000 specimens)
from the Lake and Stream Inventory of the Ontario Ministry of
Natural Resources, including specimens from 34 separate districts
of the province; a new record for Canada of the sunfish Lepomis
Qulosus from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources; a record
of a lamprey, Ichthyomyzon castaneus, new to Saskatchewan,
from the Saskatchewan Fish Lab; a paratype of the pomacentrid
fish Chromis Woodsi from the Field Museum of Natural History;
and specimens of two unique bioluminescent fishes from the
University of California.
Brian Marshall feeding live invertebrates in aquariums displayed in the
Arthropod Gallery.
Department of Invertebrate Palaeontology Departmental field
work added many ammonites and associated fossils to the collec¬
tions. Three noteworthy collections were donated to this depart¬
ment: a particularly fine collection of Pennsylvanian invertebrates
from Texas; a collection of 100 Eocene insects, many of them
illustrated specimens, from British Columbia; and 90 excellent
seashells.
Department of Mammalogy Thirty-nine accessions during the
year increased holdings by 1,450 specimens. The largest number
(300) resulted from field work in Quetico Provincial Park. Addi¬
tional specimens were acquired from the estate of Mr. Hoyes
Lloyd. A notable acquisition was the donation of 186 tanned
skins and skulls of fisher and marten from the Ontario Ministry
of Natural Resources. Additional data from 3,600 specimens
were placed on magnetic tape, and information from 16,000
specimens has now been entered into the computer storage and
retrieval system.
Department of Mineralogy and Geology Samples of rocks and
minerals were obtained by curatorial staff in the Slave Province
(N.W.T.), in the Avalon Peninsula (Newfoundland), and in Ontario
and Arizona. Collection of rare phosphate in the Yukon Territory
by staff members provided specimens for research and exchange,
and several rock suites were added through donations, exchanges,
and collecting. The department purchased 613 mineralogical
specimens, including 41 species new to the ROM collections.
Recataloguing and reorganization of the petrology collection
continued.
Department of Ornithology Approximately 6,000 study skins and
about 1,000 skeletons were added to the teaching, research, and
exchange collections. By far the most significant acquisition was
the bequest of the Hoyes Lloyd collection of approximately 5,000
study skins. Additional specimens were collected by curatorial and
technical staff in Patagonia, Texas, New Zealand, Fiji, India, and
northern Ontario.
Bob Gait dismantling the crystal case in the Gallery of Mineralogy,
May 1978.
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Rudy Zimmerman drilling an Eremotherium vertebra with the bone-drilling
machine he designed and built.
Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology The department added
to its collections material of the giant ground sloth Eremotherium,
remains of the miniature sabre-tooth cat Smilodontopsis, and
specimens representing several other mammals, all of which were
collected in Florida. A collection of Pleistocene material from
Florida was purchased, and, as part of a continuing exchange pro¬
gramme, a collection of high-fidelity replicas of early Tertiary
mammal dentitions was received from the University of California.
Approximately 1,000 specimens have been added to the
catalogue collection.
Department of Botany The department was able to augment its
collection of fossil pollen samples from Holocene lake sediment
collected in Newfoundland, the Northwest Territories, British
Columbia, and Ontario. The department's continued support of
collections in the University of Toronto Herbarium resulted in the
addition of over 6,000 specimens of vascular plants, primarily from
Canadian environments.
Canadiana Department A highlight of the year's acquisitions was
the gift of two Krieghoff paintings. Five paintings by Napier and
Wyndham were also donated, and the department was able to
purchase several other paintings and watercolours. Other
purchases included Canadian furnishings of the late 18th and early
19th centuries.
Egyptian Department Although high prices at auctions preclude
the addition of many pieces to the Egyptian Collection, the depart¬
ment was able to purchase three fine pieces of small animal
sculpture in 1977-78. A gift of 11 small objects was also received.
Ethnology Department The department continued to expand its
fine collection of contemporary Native art with the purchase of
paintings by Saul Williams and Johnson Meekis and of many
excellent North American Native pieces such as a quilled Micmac
chair and quillwork boxes. Other acquisitions originated from New
Guinea and from Easter Island, and four outstanding collections
originated from Mexico.
European Department In close cooperation with some of its most
generous sponsors, the department has obtained such important
additions to the collections as a Dupaquier porcelain bowl by
Helchis, a collection of blue scale Worcester, a bronze crucifix
attributed to Giovanni Bologna, a bronze child's head by Soldani
Benzi, and two wax sculptures by Zumba. Several important
miniatures and bronzes and some Art Deco and 20th-century
ceramics and glass were purchased.
Far Eastern Department A rare album of 18th-century Japanese
literati paintings and hanging scrolls by Chikuto (19th century) and
Kaiho Yusho (late 15th century) were among the significant addi¬
tions to the collections. A longtime patron of the department
donated an important collection of Japanese No masks and two
Indian sandstone sculptures. The department's limited purchase
funds have been applied largely to the acquisition of paintings and
prints, which included 17th-century, 19th-century, and 20th-
century paintings.
Greek and Roman Department Collections were augmented by
gifts and by purchases. Some of the pieces from the Zacks Collec¬
tion were accessioned, representing significant additions to the
collection of sculpture. These included several Bronze Age marble
idols and a Roman statue of Eros. Under Mrs. A.H. Easson's super¬
vision, the Conservation Department began making plaster casts
of all ancient Greek coins in the numismatic collections. These
casts will be photographed for publication. The mould-decorated
samian ware is being cleaned and fragments are being joined
where necessary. Extensive conservation of an Iron Age dagger
and sheath has been done as well.
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Oil painting, "The Berry Picker", by Cornelius Krieghoff, 1860. Gift of
Dr. A.W. Conn, Toronto.
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Department of New World Archaeology Until 1966
archaeological collections from the New World were under the
care of the Ethnology Department. In that year the responsibility
for most of the archaeological collections from Ontario was
transferred to the recently formed Office of the Chief
Archaeologist. Now, with the establishment of the Department of
New World Archaeology, arrangements are being made with the
staff of the Ethnology Department for the transfer of the remainder
of their archaeological collections, from Ontario and elsewhere, to
the new department. Arrangements are also being made with the
Department of Anthropology of the University of Toronto for the
transfer of a number of Museum collections that have been under
its care for several years.
Textile Department Because the textile collections include
examples from all areas of the world and are a historical record as
well as a collection of contemporary items, additions to the
department's collections cover a wide range of material. Gifts
ranged from such items as a collection of Coptic textiles from
Egypt (5th to 7th century A.D.) and a collection of textiles from
Slovakia and Hungary (19th to 20th century) to early 20th-century
Canadian pince-nez glasses, 19th-century Canadian embroidery,
a 20th-century Nova Scotia hooked rug, and a 19th-century
Ontario quilt. Purchases included material from Afghanistan and
18th-century English and American fabrics.
Display of ROM-supported excavation materials. Chubayra-The story of a
Persian town in Marco Polo's time.
West Asian Department The department assumed responsibility
for the first time for the Museum's Indo-lslamic collection, adding
to it a Mughal painting and page of illumination. An Early Bronze
Age tomb group from a large cemetery at Bab ed-Drah on the
Dead Sea was acquired by purchase. Other acquisitions included a
rare Fatimid rock crystal and a Nishapur glazed bowl.
Library The Library continued to phase in automation in its
cataloguing and bibliographical search procedures. The book stock
grew by 1,500 titles, and a subscription list of 440 journal titles was
maintained. An additional 1,000 journals were received on
exchange or deposit. The total stock now numbers approximately
70,000 volumes. The number of titles bound in 1977-78 was
increased to 184, with 36 of them being bound for the first time.
During the year the Library initiated a monthly automated acces¬
sions list and a library newsletter to alert staff members to new
acquisitions and to developments in library services. Refinements
were introduced into the exchange programme records, and the
conversion of working tool records into departmental loan records
is nearing completion.
Conservation Department The material in the Museum's care
requires maintenance from curatorial and technical staff and, in
many cases, conservation. During the year under review 780
objects were treated in the Conservation Department, but two
projects were of particular interest.
conservator for nearly three months. As two of the statues
were life size and the third approximately 11 feet tall, the planning
for this loan required a good deal of interdepartmental coopera¬
tion and considerable creative thinking. Of particular note was the
innovative work of the Preparators, who had to select the right
materials for wrapping the pieces, and to pack and crate the
pieces so that no damage would occur in transit. Special packing
cases were designed for the three largest pieces.
Registration Department As our international reputation grows,
requests for loans from ROM collections are being received in
increasing numbers from Europe and the United States. Long
before the excitement of the send-off of such loans as the one to
Nara, the Registration Department, along with other Museum staff,
lays careful plans to obviate shipping difficulties and to ensure that
our environmental and security requirements are met.
As the department responsible for the records and documentation
of all museum artifacts, the Registration Department found its
work affected in 1977-78 by a number of legislative measures.
Changes in legislation concerning the international circulation of
art works and specimens, taxation, and Canada Customs apply to
all museum loans and artifacts, and the new Cultural Property
Export and Import Act, which came into effect in September 1977,
affects particularly those museum operations with which the
Registration Department is concerned.
The first concerned the plan to display the Egyptian mummy cases
in an upright position (the position in which the coffins were
intended to be seen at the funeral). Extensive conservation work
was required for the strengthening of the cases. In the course of
the work, staff from the Conservation Department collaborated
with the Department of Forestry of the University of Toronto in
identifying woods used in some of the coffins and in planning a
research liaison with the Canadian Conservation Institute on the
materials and pigments used in the coffin decorations.
The second project arose from the loan of several very large
wooden sculptures from the Far Eastern collection to the Nara
National Museum in Japan. The conservation needs of two
wooden statues included in the loan required the work of one
A significant area of activity for the Museum in 1977-78 was the
planning for the moving of collections during the renovation and
expansion. To tackle this complicated task, a Collections Manage¬
ment Task Force was established. A Coordinator of Collections
Management, Mr. T. Yamamoto, has been seconded from the
curatorial ranks to coordinate the work of the three departments
most closely involved in assisting curatorial departments in pre¬
serving the collections— Conservation, Registration, and the
Preparators. Work on the site of the new building and the demoli¬
tion of some minor parts of the Museum have already made it
necessary to move artifacts and specimens out of some galleries
and storage areas.
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The transfer of the Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology in
August 1977 to temporary off-site quarters at 299 Queen Street
West was one of the first physical moves in the ROM expansion
project. The change to new quarters occasioned an extensive
reorganization of the collections and facilitated their amalgama¬
tion in a single collection room. While the packing, unpacking,
sorting, and organizing of material were time-consuming opera¬
tions, the better organization and easier accessibility of the collec¬
tion are the first changes of the kind we look forward to in the
renovated and expanded Museum.
Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology at the beginning and the end
of the year 1977-78.
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Bringing the Museum
to the People
The Museum is fortunate in having a staff possessed of a wealth
and diversity of knowledge unmatched in any other museum in
Canada. It is clearly the ROM's responsibility to share this
knowledge with the people of Ontario and Canada. We therefore
gratefully acknowledge our indebtedness to the Government of
Ontario and to the Government of Canada for the strong support
and encouragement they have afforded us, through the Ministry of
Culture and Recreation and the National Museums of Canada
respectively, in bringing the Museum to the people. Without their
financial assistance, our efforts in this area would be severely
curtailed.
Programmes in the Community
Although the Extension Services Department coordinates some of
the most visible of the Museum's programmes in the community,
much of the success of these programmes is due to the initiative,
assistance, and cooperation of staff in all departments of the
Museum, as well as to the help of dedicated volunteers and of
the communities and groups that host the Museum's programmes
and exhibits.
Travelling Exhibitions
During the year 1977-78 a number of new exhibits were created
for circulation. Inheritance, a travelling display of North American
artifacts from the collections of the Ethnology Department, was
completed and installed for an opening in the Windsor Art Gallery
in mid-September 1977. The exhibit, which deals with the Native
peoples' relationship to the land, continued to circulate in the
spring of 1978, moving to Sault Ste. Marie.
Niagara, an exhibit of 27 prints from the collections of the
Canadiana Department, depicts man's interpretation of the natural
phenomenon known as Niagara Falls. The visual impact of the
Falls on artists through four centuries is recorded in this selection
of pictures.
Life in Rural Ontario, another exhibition of prints from the
Canadiana Department collections, portrays 19th-century life in
the province— again as seen and interpreted by artists.
Two multi-screen exhibits— Indian Rock Paintings and More Than
Meets the Eye (Photomicrographs)-were redesigned to meet the
needs of both large and small centres across the province. The
large Indian Rock Paintings display was divided into three smaller
shows, and Photomicrographs was completely redone as three
distinct exhibits entitled More Than Meets the Eye. The latter now
contains actual mineral specimens mounted behind Plexiglas
bulges in addition to descriptive material and photo-panels.
Two exhibits were designed for short-term use. One, Know Your
Insects, was displayed at the Toronto Spring Flower and Garden
Show in March; the other, Diversity of Life, was on public view at
the Toronto Sportsmen's Show during the same month.
The Extension Services Department and the Textile Department
were involved in a textile exhibit, Medieval Islamic World,
which was shown at Scarborough College in January and February
of 1978.
Fossils Through the Mails was displayed at the University of
Waterloo in October, November, and December of 1977.
These new exhibits, together with those created in previous years,
circulated to 50 locations in communities throughout Ontario. The
exhibits range from a slide kit with commentary entitled Quilts in
the ROM Collection to exhibits of artifacts, such as Hearth and
Home and Inheritance, to multi-screen displays such as More
Than Meets the Eye and the very popular The Confederation
Generation.
The Toiles de louy exhibition of French 18th-century printed tex¬
tiles, which had been displayed in the village of Jouy en Josas,
France (the source of the materials in the ROM collection), and
had also been shown in the Museum earlier this year, was
prepared for travelling to several areas of Quebec. The exhibition
was shown in the Musee d'Histoire et de Traditions populaires de
Gaspe, the Musee regional de Rimouski, the Musee Pierre Boucher
du Seminaire de Trois-Rivieres, and in Sherbrooke. It is scheduled
to appear in Chicoutimi, Sept-lles, and Montreal between July and
October of 1978. The project was made possible by the Ontario
Travelling exhibition Inheritance— Arctic case, showing Inuit artifacts.
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M. Georges Estrade, Consul-General of France (on right), with the Director
and Mrs. K.B. Brett at the opening of the Toiles de louy exhibition, Toronto,
September 1977.
Ministry of Culture and Recreation and the Quebec Ministries of
Intergovernmental Affairs and Cultural Affairs in collaboration with
the Ontario-Quebec Permanent Commission.
The Museum was well represented at various gatherings of
mineral and gem enthusiasts with displays prepared and accom¬
panied by staff of the Department of Mineralogy and Geology.
Yukon Phosphate Minerals was displayed at the Midwest Federa¬
tion Mineral Show at Dayton, Ohio, and at the New Jersey Earth
Science Teachers Association Show at Edison, New Jersey. Pyrite
Crystal Forms was shown at the Greater Detroit Gem and Mineral
Show, the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, the Buffalo Mineral
Show, and the Rochester Mineral Symposium. Ontario Minerals
was shown at the Greater Detroit Gem and Mineral Show and the
Midwest Federation Mineral Show. Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec,
Minerals was shown at the New Jersey Earth Science Association
Show in South Orange.
Two of these displays were shown in Ontario: Pyrite Crystal Forms
at the Central Canadian Federation of Mineral Societies at
Brantford, and Ontario Minerals at the Scarborough Gem and
Mineral Show.
The Museum maintains permanent display cases in the Toronto-
Dominion Centre, the Ontario Legislative Building, and Toronto
City Hall. In 1977-78 these cases displayed the travelling exhibi¬
tions Insects; Abracadabra: West Asian Metaphysics; Godin Tepe,
Iran; Fossils and Giant Fossil Bones; Art of Canadian Native People;
Canadian Class, Treen, and Pottery; Photographs of Glass; and
Diversity of Life.
Speakers' Bureau
The Speakers' Bureau completed its first full year of operation in
January 1978. A total of 39 staff members offered the public a
choice of 88 interesting and informative lectures on topics ranging
from antiques, art, and textiles to archaeology and Canadiana.
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The Bureau's services were offered free of charge to study groups,
library and service groups, historical societies, and collectors'
associations. In all, 89 lectures were given, including three at
Festival Ontario events. The following few examples illustrate the
extent and popularity of the programme.
Dr. D. Barr spoke on "Urban Entomology" to both the Toronto
Entomological Association and the Federation of Ontario
Naturalists, and Dr. R.l. Gait on "Mineral Collecting in Southern
Africa" to the Gem and Mineral Clubs of Scarborough and
Oshawa. "Pioneer Life in Upper Canada" was the topic of an
address given by Dr. L.S. Russell in Lindsay, Ontario. Mr. H. Hickl-
Szabo gave a lecture on "Huguenot Silver" to the Huguenot
Society of Toronto, and Mr. C.P. Kaellgren lectured to groups in
Burlington, Chatham, Oakville, Powassan, North Bay, Picton,
Sudbury, and Toronto. His most popular subject was "What Is
an Antique?"
Another service provided by the Speakers' Bureau that has proved
very popular is the treasure identification clinics. These consist of
panels of three or more speakers with expertise in specific fields
who identify family heirlooms and other treasures brought in by
the public. The clinics also provide an opportunity for interested
people to learn more about the subjects under discussion.
In December 1977 a media coordinator was appointed to work
with local communications outlets both to develop programmes
and to notify communities of ROM events scheduled for their
areas. Through the agency of the Speakers' Bureau, ROM staff
members have appeared on network television affiliates in Sud¬
bury, Timmins, and North Bay, and on cable television stations in
North Bay, Sudbury, and Lindsay. In addition, a series of pro¬
grammes on the work of different departments of the Museum has
been produced by Oakville Cablevision Ltd., and this programme
will continue into next year. Arrangements have been made with
the South Central Regional Library System to retain copies of the
Oakville series for use in libraries within the region.
Invited Lectures
Because of their prominence in particular areas of scholarship,
Museum staff members are invited to give lectures to many
organizations and institutions.
Creek and Roman Department Mrs. A.H. Easson spoke on
"Romulus Augustus" to the Friends of Theatre Plus at the
St. Lawrence Centre.
Department of New World Archaeology Dr. D.M. Pendergast
gave talks to the Joseph Brant Historical Society, the Royal Cana¬
dian Institute, and the Ontario Archaeological Society (Toronto).
Dr. W.A. Kenyon addressed the local chapters of the
Archaeological Institute of America in St. Catharines and Toronto,
the Ontario Archaeological Society, Trent University, the London
Public Libraries, Nelles Elementary School and the people
of Grimsby.
Department of Botany As part of a National Research Council
travelling lecture tour, Dr. J.H. McAndrews gave public lectures at
York University, Trent University, the University of Western
Ontario, the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary, Simon
Fraser University, the Penticton Garden Club, the Parks Palaeon¬
tology Society, the Ontario Archaeological Society, and the
Annual Meeting of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists.
Department of Mineralogy and Geology Staff of the department
gave invited lectures to a number of organizations in the United
States and Canada. At the Midwest Federation Show, Dr. J.A.
Mandarino spoke on “Yukon Phosphate Minerals", and at the
Federation's annual banquet he gave a talk entitled "Gold".
"Mineralogical Nomenclature" was the title of a lecture that he
gave to the New Jersey Earth Science Association in South Orange,
and again to the New York Mineralogical Society in New York. He
also lectured on "Yukon Phosphate Minerals" to the New Jersey
Earth Science Teachers Association in Edison, where he was
moderator and panel member for a discussion "What's New in
Minerals?". At the Greater Detroit Gem and Mineral Show,
Dr. Mandarino lectured on "The Garnet Group" and was organizer
and panel member of the panel discussion on "The Chemistry of
Minerals". His subject at the Rochester Mineral Symposium was
"The Growth of the Mineral Kingdom".
Dr. R.l. Gait spoke on "Crystal Forms of Pyrite" to the South African
Micro-Mineral Association (Pretoria), the Tucson Gem and Mineral
Show, the Ottawa Valley Gem and Mineral Club, and the Cana¬
dian Micro-Mineral Association. Mr. B.D. Sturman gave a talk on
phosphates to the Stratford Rockhounds.
Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology Dr. G. Emund and
Dr. C. McGowan gave a number of invited lectures on a variety of
subjects, including dinosaurs, giant ground sloths, flightless birds,
and bones. Their colleague, Dr. L.S. Russell, spoke on "Living
Dinosaurs" to members of the Royal Canadian Institute.
Textile Department Staff members were invited to lecture to a
number of organizations. Mr. J.E. Vollmer lectured on "Printed and
Resist-dyed Fabrics" at the Ontario College of Art; on
"Archaeological Looms from China", to the Toronto Spinners and
Weavers Guild; on "Chinoiserie and the China Trade", at the
Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston; on "The Role of
Costume in Traditional China", at the China Institute in America in
New York; on 'The History and Function of Chinese Rugs", at the
Oriental Carpet and Textile Society of Great Britain; and on
"Chinese Textiles and Costume— Principles of Design", at Artweave
Gallery in New York.
At the international meeting of the Japanese Kimono Society held
in Toronto, Mrs. M. Holford lectured on "Canadian Costume".
Shawls, men's 19th-century clothing, and costume worn in Canada
were topics of lectures she gave to the Costume Society of
Ontario in Toronto and Orillia.
At a colloquium on the Medieval Islamic World held at Scar¬
borough College, Dr. V. Gervers spoke on "The Importance of
Textiles in Medieval Islamic Trade". "Felt-making in Eurasia" was
her subject at a colloquium on the Nomadic Weaving Traditions of
the Middle East at the Museum of Art of the Carnegie Institute,
Pittsburgh. Dr. Gervers also lectured at the Ontario College of Art
on "Medieval Islamic Textiles".
Museumobiles
The Extension Services Department continued to operate the two
museumobiles, Fossils of Ontario and Man in Ontario, sending
both into regions some distance from the Museum. When the
museumobiles were not scheduled for school visits, they were
taken to libraries, museums, and provincial parks in the eastern
and western regions of southern Ontario. More than 20,000
people in 66 communities visited the Fossils of Ontario
museumobile, and 23,500 people in 54 communities saw the
displays in the Man in Ontario museumobile.
Support for Other Museums
Most departments of the Royal Ontario Museum operate pro¬
grammes in support of other museums and galleries. The
curatorial departments make loans of artifacts or specimens; the
Conservation Department makes available its wide range
of conservation expertise; the Ontario Museums Support and
Advisory Services Department provides advice and assistance to
community cultural centres whose own resources are limited; and
the Extension Services Department exists for the specific purpose
of coordinating and extending outreach activities.
Several informal workshops for visitors from small museums were
given through the school services programme of the Extension Ser¬
vices Department. Representatives from the Oakville Historical
Museum, the Brant County Museum, Ste. Marie Among the
Hurons, and the Atikokan, Fort Frances, and Dryden museums
were given information on operating school case programmes.
A number of Museum departments gave behind-the-scenes tours
to delegates to the Annual Conference of the Ontario Museum
Association, and the Planetarium provided them with a
free show in its Theatre of the Stars. The Extension Services
Man in Ontario (Archaeology)
Museumobile at Yorkdale Plaza,
March 1978.
Department invited the delegates to a discussion of the ROM
extension programmes.
Conservation Department This year the department had many
enquiries about controlled environments for museum collections.
Some of these enquiries resulted in visits from representatives of
institutions or government agencies involved with expansion pro¬
grammes. The visitors included representatives from the Museums
Section of the Ministry of Culture of Quebec; the Department of
Public Works, Quebec City; the Smithsonian Institution,
Washington; the Western Development Museum, Saskatoon; the
Joseph Brant Museum, Burlington; and the Bristol Art Gallery,
England. Conservators also provided advice on conservation to
the Beth Tzedec Synagogue, Gibson House, and many other
institutions, and gave assistance to Gibson House when its furnace
exploded last winter.
Members of the department organized and took part in several
conservation workshops. Ms. S. Wilson conducted a one-day
OMA workshop, "Preventative Care of Wood”, in London,
Ontario, and also shared with Mr. G. Pawlick and Mr. C. Toogood
a one-day workshop of the Ontario Historical Society (Museums
Section), "Conserving the Past for the Future”. In the spring of
1978 Ms. G. Moir lectured at the two-day OMA "Care of Collec¬
tions” course, which is part of the training programme for staff of
small museums.
Ontario Museums Support and Advisory Services Department
This year the department directed much of its work towards
assisting community museums in northern Ontario. More than
4,000 miles were travelled by car and trailer and 19 institutions
were given help. As a result of these visits, the Museum now has
on file reports of the physical plant and collections of 50 museums
in the province. This information is important in planning extension
services that will be of value to smaller museums in Ontario.
An important part of the ROM's cooperation with other institu¬
tions involves the loan of artifacts by the curatorial departments. In
1977-78 these ranged from small loans of one or two artifacts to
an international loan so ambitious that a new and highly
sophisticated packing system had to be created.
Canadiana Department Items were provided to the Art Gallery of
Ontario, the Hastings County Museum, the Sir William Campbell
House, the Government of Ontario, the Toronto Historical Board,
and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. These were in addition to
the longer-term loans to the Museum of the Upper Lakes, the
Wellington County Museum, the Naval Establishment at
Penetanguishene, the Toronto Historical Board, the Niagara Parks
Commission, Turkey Point Provincial Park, and the Albany Club.
Ethnology Department The department sent 621 items on loan to
29 cultural institutions. Among the institutions borrowing materials
were the Museo de las Culturas, Mexico, the Queen Charlotte
Islands Museum, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
European Department The department lent miniature china
pieces to the Wellington County Museum.
Egyptian Department The department made loans to Queen's
University, Trent University, and the Robarts Library of the Univer¬
sity of Toronto.
Far Eastern Department Another section of this Report includes
details of the innovative work done by several Museum depart¬
ments to enable the Far Eastern Department to send four Chinese
Buddhist sculptures to Nara National Museum in Japan. This loan,
involving some life-size pieces, was perhaps the most ambitious
project of its type ever undertaken here, and required an enor¬
mous number of man-hours and the highest level of coordination
and research. The Far Eastern Department also provided important
groups of archaeological materials to the University of Toronto,
Queen's University, and Erindale College, as well as sending small
groups of exhibit support material to the National Currency Collec¬
tion, the University of Guelph, and the University of Toronto.
Department of New World Archaeology The department sent
out several loans of prehistoric and historic artifacts to museums in
Grimsby, Massey, and North Bay.
Textile Department The department lent materials to the Grange,
the Mantua Maker's Shop, the China Institute of America, the
Museum of Art of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the Craft
and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, the McCord Museum in
Montreal, and the Ontario Science Centre.
West Asian Department A major loan of Islamic and Christian
manuscripts was made by the department to the Robarts Library
for an exhibition of the arts of the book in the Orient. Material was
also sent to Beth Tzedec Museum's special show in honour of the
30th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel.
The science departments, too, sent out large numbers of
specimens on loan and also donated surplus specimens to other
institutions.
Department of Entomology Approximately 2,000 specimens of
insects and spiders were provided to research workers in four
Top half of the wooden figure Kuan Yin (total height, 304.8 cm) being
packed for shipment to the Nara National Museum in Japan.
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provinces and several states in the United States. Specimens of
Crustacea were lent for ecological and morphological studies and
for the preparaton of illustrations.
Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology The department
provided fishes, amphibians, and reptiles on loan to 19 organiza¬
tions or individuals, including the University of Alberta, Roanoke
College, the University of Los Angeles, the British Museum of
Natural History, the National Museum in Paris, Rutgers University,
California State University, Erindale College, and Brock University.
Five organizations were given uncatalogued surplus materials.
Department of Invertebrate Palaeontology The department lent
275 individual specimens and lots to institutions in Canada, the
United States, and Norway for study purposes and 75 specimens
for display purposes.
Department of Mammalogy Nine institutions in Canada, the
United States, and West Germany received loans of research
specimens (197 in all) from the department. Seven loans were
made to local artists and teachers.
Department of Mineralogy and Geology Several hundred small
fragments were made available for research purposes to
mineralogists around the world.
Department of Ornithology Fifty-seven loans involving more than
300 specimens from the research and display collections of the
department were made to museums, universities, naturalists'
clubs, artists, and government ministries. Special loans of mounted
specimens went to the National Museums of Canada's Discovery
Train project and to the Ontario Science Centre. A long-term loan
of some common Canadian birds was sent to the Natural History
Museum in El Salvador.
Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology Specimens for research
from the collections of the department were lent to the National
Museums of Canada, Queen's University, the Saskatchewan
Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum of Natural History in
Chicago, the University of Wyoming, the Texas Memorial
Museum, and the British Museum of Natural History. Casts
of specimens for exhibition purposes were lent to the Chil¬
dren's Museum of London, Ontario, and the Museum of
Maguasha, Quebec.
McLaughlin Planetarium The Planetarium made a total of 26 loans
of slides and film material to such diverse organizations as schools,
the Stratford Festival, Global News, the Department of the
Environment, the National Museum of Natural Sciences, the Royal
Canadian Geographical Society, the Herzberg Institute of
Astrophysics, and Maclean's Magazine.
Extension Programmes for Schools
During the fall of 1977 and the spring of 1978, the
two museumobiles visited the public and separate schools in the
counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Leeds and Grenville,
Lanark, Lennox and Addington, Essex, Kent, Elgin, Hastings, and
Prince Edward. More than 19,000 students were able to participate
in this unique type of learning experience.
Through its school services programme, the Extension Services
Department circulates school cases of Museum materials to
Ontario schools located outside the Metropolitan Toronto region.
Trays of artifacts, objects for students to handle, student activity
sheets, teachers' notes, suggested lesson plans, slides, tape cas¬
settes, books, and pamphlets are included in the school travelling
cases, whose themes range from historical archaeology to
introductory mineralogy.
During the school year 1977-78, 12 cases were circulated to 10
school boards in the counties of Hastings, Leeds and Grenville,
Frontenac, Lennox and Addington, Northumberland and Newcastle,
Haliburton, Carleton, Muskoka, and Lanark. Two cases were lent
on a trial basis to a library in Toronto. Evaluation forms sent out
with the cases revealed that more than 15,000 students
were introduced to the cases and the accompanying materials.
The average time students spent working with the materials was
three hours.
Two doctoral students from the Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education worked this year to help us improve the evaluation
forms. Both the teachers' and the students' forms have been re¬
vised and were pretested in April. The results of this pretesting are
being analysed.
Because it would be difficult to offer introductory seminars to all
school boards that borrow the school cases, we have produced a
five-minute tape cassette to be included in the cases. The tape
provides teachers with an introduction to techniques used in
teaching and learning with "objects".
Several new cases were added to the inventory this year; the latest
explores the wonders and mystery of glass, and contains glass ob¬
jects from ancient Egypt, Rome, China, and the Islamic world, as
well as from Europe and Canada. The case encourages intensive
visual participation and student-directed comparative learning. It
presents the history of glass technology and usage and surveys the
important implications of this ancient industry for our modern
world. A tactile tray permits students to handle objects such as the
raw ingredients of glass (sand, soda, and limestone), a glass brick,
a glass cloth, a glass insulator, an optical lens, a 1910 milk bottle,
and a hand-blown glass bottle.
The Extension Services Department is also working with curatorial
departments to duplicate some of the boxes that are being pro¬
duced for the Discovery Room. Since the boxes must be picked up
from the Extension Services Department, they are made available
only on short-term loan to teachers within commuting distance of
the Museum.
To ensure that all schools in the province are made aware of
Museum events, exhibitions, and programmes, and of learning
materials produced by the ROM, a School Broadsheet is
distributed four times a year to all Ontario schools. It is produced
by the Education Services Department and the Programmes and
Public Relations Department and is distributed through the
Ontario Teachers' Federation.
As an aid to teachers, the Education Services Department pro¬
duces a series of learning resource kits for use in the classroom.
The kits are not available on loan but may be purchased by school
boards for their learning resource centres. The kits contain
filmstrips, audio cassettes, teachers' notes, and other material.
Two new kits were produced this year —Ancient Egypt: Gift of the
Nile and Introducing the Museum. The kit produced last year,
World of Dinosaurs, won an Award of Merit from the Association
for Media Technology in Education in Canada and a Federal
Declaration stating that it is "of international educational, scientific,
and cultural significance".
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Search for
New Knowledge
In the search for new knowledge, members of the staff of the
Royal Ontario Museum excavate at sites and collect specimens in
various parts of the world, assist other scholars in their studies,
conduct research, and publish their findings.
Canadians Department Miss J. Holmes, while on sabbatical leave,
undertook research in numerous archives for her study of the
19th-century Canadian glass industry. Mr. D.B. Webster recorded
and photographed public and private furniture collections in
New Brunswick and compiled comparative data for his English-
Canadian furniture project. Mrs. M. Allodi continued to collect
Canadian imprinted lithographs and engravings and conducted
research on early Canadian illustrators.
Egyptian Department Mr. A.J. Mills visited the Dakhla Oasis in
Egypt to explore the possibilities of launching a long-term excava¬
tion and study project. A grant was provided by the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council for this project, which
will be a joint effort of the Museum and the Society for the Study
of Egyptian Antiquities.
In order to improve the department's resources for teaching
Egyptian architecture, Dr. N.B. Millet and Mr. A. Hollett spent two
weeks in Luxor and Abydos studying and photographing standing
monuments of New Kingdom date. Professor D.B. Redford,
Research Associate, continued his excavations at Karnak East, and
the department maintained its contribution to the excavations
being carried out by the Egypt Exploration Society at Saqqara,
where Professor C. Martin is excavating the Memphite tomb
of Horemheb.
Ethnology Department In collaboration with the curator of the
Gulf Coast Department of the Museum of Anthropology, Mexico
City, Mr. A.M. Brownstone of the ROM spent ten weeks collecting
material from the Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, and Mexico City areas. The
fully documented ethnographical collection of more than 100
pieces that resulted from his work includes slides of the Huastec
and Nahua people, as well as of Mixtec and Zapotec groups. Of
special importance is the collection of contemporary costumes
which illustrate the use of cochineal and coracol shellfish dyes.
Dr. Zdenda Volavka, Research Associate, continued her work on a
detailed scientific catalogue of the more than 15,000 African
artifacts contained in the ROM's ethnology collections.
European Department In addition to studying prints from plates
etched and engraved by Hogarth, Mr. L. Cselenyi assisted visiting
scholars Professor van Acht of the Gemeente Museum, the Hague,
Netherlands; Dr. Michael Kassler and Dr. Jannie Croy Kassler of the
University of Sydney, Australia; Professor Cecil Hill of the University
of New England; Professor Nicole Marzac of the University of
California; and Dr. Bertolucci and Dr. Cristina de Benedictis of the
Instituto di Storia dell'Arte, University of Pisa, who were doing
research on Libellus Collectaneous, an illuminated manuscript in
the ROM's Lee Collection.
Mr. K.C. Keeble conducted research on Renaissance and Baroque
sculpture, Canadian stained glass, and Continental porcelain. He
also completed the draft manuscript for a catalogue of Museum
bronzes not included in the 1975 catalogue prepared for the
bronze exhibition of that year.
Far Eastern Department Dr. C.H. Hsu continued his work on
Chinese oracle bones and epigraphy and devoted part of his time
to studying the department's coin collection. He also travelled to
Boston to pursue research at the Yenching Library and the
Peabody and Fogg museums. Mrs. P. Proctor continued cata¬
loguing the department's extensive Chinese ceramics collection.
While she was resident ROM curator at the Nara National
Museum, Japan, Dr. D. Dohrenwend carried out research into the
department's Buddhist arts collection.
Creek and Roman Department Mrs. N. Leipen was on sabbatical
leave for six months to work on her planned publication of
This building, designated "Fut", is one
of the best-preserved structures at the
site of Lamanai, Belize, where the ROM
is excavating.
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selected Greek and Roman sculptures in the ROM collections. She
has been invited to submit her manuscript to Antike Plastik, a
European serial. In connection with this project she worked for five
weeks at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome and did
research in museums in Italy and the United States.
Mrs. A.H. Easson continued her work on the collection of Roman
Republican coins and is preparing the drawings of more than 300
specimens of mould-decorated samian ware.
Dr. J.W. Hayes participated in excavations at Carthage supervised
by the University of Michigan (1977) and the dquipe c anadienne II
(1978), and took part in McMaster University's archaeological
survey of the Liri Valley in Central Italy. He also worked on the
Roman pottery excavated at the ROM's site at Fengate, England.
With the aid of a graduate student, he continued his study at the
Paphos Museum in Cyprus of the pottery from the Cyprus
Museum's excavations in Paphos.
Dr. J. Shaw, a Research Associate, continued his excavations at the
Minoan site of Kommos in Crete. This is a joint project of the
University of Toronto and the ROM.
Department of New World Archaeology Dr. D.M. Pendergast
completed his fourth and began his fifth season of field work at
the ancient Maya site of Lamanai in Belize, Central America. As in
previous years, architectural recording was carried out by Dr. H.S.
Loten and several of his students at Carleton University. In 1977
Dr. J. Lambert, also of Carleton University, undertook a botanical
study of the site area at Lamanai, which is an important adjunct to
the archaeological investigations.
In August 1977 Dr. W.A. Kenyon participated in an archaeological
survey of the southern coast of Labrador (Strait of Belle Isle), which
succeeded in locating the remains of a number of 16th-century
Spanish Basque whaling settlements. The survey was supervised
by Dr. J.A. Tuck of Memorial University of Newfoundland in
cooperation with Mrs. Selma Barkham of Cuipuzcoa, Spain, who
had carried out extensive research on the settlements in the
Spanish Archives.
On behalf of the Museum, Mr. Bryan Snow, a graduate student in
the Department of Anthropology of the University of Toronto con¬
ducted the third season of excavation at the Seed site in August.
This site contains a 16th-century village which was occupied by the
ancestors of the Huron. The excavation was done in conjunction
with an archaeological field school directed by Mr. Snow and
sponsored by the ROM, the Ontario Ministry of Education, the
boards of education for the City of Toronto, and the boroughs of
York, North York, East York, Etobicoke, and Scarborough, the York
County Board of Education, the Metropolitan Toronto Separate
School Board, and the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conser¬
vation Authority. Forty senior secondary school students
from Metropolitan Toronto and York County received credit in
Canadian Studies for their work at the site.
In May 1978 Dr. P.L. Storck began a major excavation project on
an Early Palaeo-lndian site which he had discovered in 1975 and
tested in 1976. The site is on the former strandline of glacial Lake
Algonquin and may have been occupied 10,000 to 12,000 years
ago. The project is multidisciplinary and involves three co¬
investigators: Dr. J.H. McAndrews of the Department of Botany,
who will study the pollen and plant macrofossils; Dr. P.H. von
Bitter of the Department of Invertebrate Palaeontology, who will
study the microflora and/or fauna in the chert; and Dr. Q.H.J.
Gwyn of the Department de Geographie, Universite de Sher¬
brooke, Quebec, who will study the sediments and stratigraphy in
the area of the site.
With the assistance of his son Chris, Mr. Selwyn Dewdney, a
Research Associate in the field of pictographs and petroglyphs
(rock paintings and carvings), began a project of revising the site
cards for nearly 300 recorded sites in the Canadian Shield. The
cards are the major reference for the sites and have scale drawings
Model of part of the later Iron Age village
at Fengate, c. 1st century B.c
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of the rock face and of each figure and information on the rock
surface, water levels, and so forth. The project is expected to take
two years to complete.
Textile Department Research carried out by staff of the depart¬
ment necessitated visits by Dr. V. Cervers to museums in England
and Turkey to study garment construction in West Asia, oriental
carpets, and the manufacture and sale of textiles in the Istanbul
bazaar. Mr. J.E. Vollmer investigated storage methods for textiles
at museums in Montreal, New York, and Boston and studied
carpets in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In addition,
department staff conducted studies in the Museum in a wide
variety of fields: the archaeological Islamic textiles from the
Mediterranean Basin, felt-making in West Asia, 18th-century Euro¬
pean dress construction, European embroidery, Far Eastern
costume construction, Peruvian archaeological textiles, and South
American ethnological textiles. An analysis was made of the
archaeological textile remains excavated at Seh Gabi, Iran.
West Asian Department In the spring of 1978 Dr. L.D. Levine
departed for the second stage of the Mahidasht Project, which will
last four months and will involve some 20 people in survey and
sondage. Also in the spring, Dr. T.C. Young, Jr., directed an
excavation in the Diyala Region of Iraq in conjunction with the
British Archaeological Expedition to that country.
An enormous quantity of data was generated by scientists in the
West Asian Department from their field projects in recent years.
Significant progress was made during 1977-78 in sifting through
the material and in the preparation of reports. By year's end the
preliminary report on Qal'en-Yazdigird, the basic research for
reports on Godin IV and Godin III, and the final report on Seh Gabi
were all at various stages of production. Computers played a large
part in three of the projects: the Mahidasht survey, the Godin III
volume, and the Isfahan Urban History Project.
Department of Botany Staff of the department made a number of
collecting excursions this year. Holocene lake sediment was
collected in Newfoundland; material for palaeo-environmental
Jim Lovisek, assistant in the Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology,
examining one of the specimens from the large collection he made
in Belize.
reconstruction of the Viking site was gathered at L'Anse aux
Meadows, Newfoundland; and Quaternary sediments were col¬
lected in Ontario. In addition, in cooperation with Environment
Canada, Mr. J. Riley made plant collections, landscape evaluations,
and bird habitat characterizations in northern Ontario. He also
collected plants in southern Ontario and in the Clay Belt.
Studies this year were concentrated in two areas: palaeo-
environmental reconstructions by fossil pollen and seed analysis,
and floristic and phytogeographic studies of Ontario vegetation. A
special project on the study of honey-bee pollen was undertaken
by Ms. C. Manville and Mr. R. Adams.
The department assisted the University of Toronto in acquiring ap¬
proximately 8,000 specimens for its herbarium. These included
more than 2,000 specimens from the Hoyes Lloyd collection,
mainly from southern Ontario and the southern United States.
Curator service for the University of Toronto lichen collection was
provided by Dr. J. Krug.
Department of Entomology The department undertook a variety
of specialized curatorial expeditions in support of current research
programmes. Trichoptera were collected by Dr. G.B. Wiggins in
the United Kingdom, mite samples were taken in the Adirondacks
of upstate New York, and Dr. D. Barr began a seasonal survey
programme of aquatic mite populations in three southern Ontario
lentic habitats. There was an expedition to the southeastern and
eastern United States in early spring to obtain developmental
forms of caddisflies, particularly of the genus Cheumatopsyche. A
number of trips were also taken to various parts of southern
Ontario to collect developmental forms of the caddisfly genus
Hydropsyche.
Dr. D. Barr completed a retrospective study on the significance of
mite community structure for benthic ecosystems and made pro¬
gress on his analysis of film and videotape records of locomotion
in aquatic mites.
Department of Invertebrate Zoology Mrs. R. Carson collected in
freshwater, marine, and brackish water habitats in Massachusetts,
concentrating particularly on the Bryozoa. On an expedition
to British Columbia, she gathered planktonic larval forms of
a variety of marine invertebrates for inclusion in the invertebrate
research collections.
Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology The department
carried out field work in 1977-78 in Florida, in North and South
Carolina, on the Severn River in Ontario, in the Kawartha Lakes
region, in the Muskoka district, and in Belize. In this last area staff
cooperated with the Department of New World Archaeology in
identifying bones excavated at Lamanai and in exploring the
possibility of using them to interpret human diet and environ¬
mental conditions at the time of occupation of the site.
During his field work in the freshwaters of the Atlantic coast of the
United States, Dr. A.R. Emery studied sound production of sun-
fishes in various localities and recorded a new type of sound in a
Florida subspecies of the bluegill. He also cooperated with the
Duke University and the Harbor Branch Foundation on a study to
check the northern distributional limits of two pomacentrid
species. Several new distribution records resulted from the work.
Cooperative research projects were undertaken with the Ontario
Ministry of Natural Resources (Splake reproductive behaviour);
with Dr. Smith-Vaniz, Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia
(geographic variation in Caribbean damselfishes); with Dr. G.
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Allen, Western Australia Museum (revision of several genera of
damselfishes); with Dr. B. Fenton, Carleton University (ultra¬
sonic sound reception in fishes); and with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service (fishes of Lake Ontario).
In 1977-78 the department placed priority on the cataloguing by
computer of the important Barbados collections of reef and shore
fishes. The total number of lots of fishes processed through the
computer this year was 2,144 (38,000 specimens). In addition, 302
specimens of amphibians and reptiles were catalogued.
Department of Invertebrate Palaeontology The department's
major field activity was the collection by Dr. D.H. Collins and
Mr. R. Barnett of the classic evolutionary lineage of the
cephalopod genus Kosmoceras from quarries near Calvert and
Peterborough, England. Some 2,300 specimens of Kosmoceras and
300 associated fossils were collected. Dr. Collins is engaged in
research on evolutionary patterns within the genus.
Mr. D. Rudkin made considerable progress on the organization,
identification, and making up of sets of the Burgess Shale fossils. As
a result of this work, duplicate fossils will be available for distribu¬
tion to other Canadian institutions.
Department of Mammalogy The department conducted a survey
to determine the distribution and relative abundance of small
mammals in Quetico Provincial Park. During the survey, 300
specimens were collected.
On a field trip to Rhodesia, Dr. M.B. Fenton, Research Associate,
studied the behaviour and ecology of several bat species. Other
work conducted by members of the department included research
on the bats of Columbia, a study of Malagasy bats, and a study of
nectivorous neotropical bats of the genus Anoura.
Department of Mineralogy and Geology This is the largest
curatorial department in the ROM, and the fact is reflected in the
wide range of research activities engaged in by its members.
Several activities involved the development of new techniques. A
major project was Dr. F. Wicks' and Mr. R. Ramik's work in adding
a high vacuum system to the Mettler Thermoanalyzer and the in¬
stallation of a quadripole spectrometer. When completed, these
modifications will provide a facility unique to Canada for analysing
the gases evolved from minerals heated during our studies of
mineral decomposition and will greatly extend the possibilities for
further research in this field.
Dr. T.E. Krogh developed a new technique for the dissolution of
zircons for isotopic age determinations. The new method is
cleaner, faster, and cheaper than the one he developed in 1973.
Isotopic age studies are under way on a variety of problems: age
relationships between basement and supracrustal rocks in the
Slave Province, N.W.T.; ages of volcanic and intrusive rocks in the
Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland; ages of the English River
gneisses in Northwestern Ontario; isotopic ages of plutonic rocks
in the Grenville Province; isotopic ages of gneisses in West
Greenland.
Dr. J.A. Mandarino continued his work on the garnet group of
minerals and, with Mr. B.D. Sturman, completed the description of
two new phosphate minerals from the Yukon. Mr. Sturman also
completed work on two new minerals, one with Dr. R.l. Gait and
one with Mr. P. Dunn of the Smithsonian Institution, and with
Mr. Dunn and Dr. D. Peacor of the University of Michigan he
helped to characterize four new mineral species.
Desmond Collins standing in a pit collecting Kosmoceras, November 1977.
Other noteworthy work in the department includes Dr. Gait's
studies of a new mineral species from South West Africa and an
unusual pyrite crystal from Greece and Dr. S.B. Lumbers' research
on the petrology and geochronology of a new alkalic rock-
carbonatite complex in Westmeath Township, Ontario, and the
petrology of gneisses in Renfrew County in part in order to
establish their origin.
Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology The department con¬
centrated on three major areas of study this year. Dr. L.S. Russell,
Curator Emeritus, spent much of the summer in Central Alberta
studying the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, which is the time
of transition from an age dominated by dinosaurs to a world of
mammals. Fie completed a study on the Oligocene anthra-
cotheres, a group of primitive cloven-hoofed mammals and is
currently working on the Oligocene entelodonts, the so-called
giant pigs.
Dr. G. Edmund continued his studies in the anatomy and
geographic distribution of the giant ground sloths and armadillos.
He spent two months examining sites and collecting Pleistocene
fossils of Florida and exploring the possibility that there may have
been more species of giant ground sloths living in the Florida area
than has heretofore been believed.
Dr. C. McGowan returned in July from a sabbatical leave in New
Zealand where he had been studying living and extinct flightless
birds. In addition to work on his collected data, he completed a
study on the geographic distribution of some ichthyosaurs
(Mesozoic marine reptiles).
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Communicating
Our Knowledge
Programmes for the General Public
Gallery Development and Renovation
The Museum's galleries are its most effective means of com¬
municating knowledge to the public. The creation, evaluation, and
renovation of galleries require the guidance and expertise of
curatorial staff together with the diverse skills of carpenters,
preparators, conservators, photographers, educators, designers,
programmers, and many others.
In 1977-78 two major new galleries were opened: the
Invertebrate Fossils Gallery and the Discovery Room. In addition,
the first phase of the new Arthropod Gallery was completed.
Discovery Room The Discovery Room is unusual in that it is a
place where visitors may handle museum artifacts and specimens
rather than simply view them. Tools such as microscopes, magni¬
fying lenses, and ultraviolet lamps prompt the visitor to learn by
exploring and discovering. Many of the objects have Braille labels,
enabling the blind to derive a good deal of satisfaction from a visit
to the room. In addition to labels in English and French, some
objects have labels in Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian,
and Chinese.
The contents of the room are divided into three basic types of
component, all concerned with experiential learning, but at vary¬
ing levels of difficulty. Objects that may not be part of the visitor's
everyday experience are called "Stumpers" and are meant to
delight and intrigue the curious and to encourage closer investiga¬
tion. "Stumpers" range from the largest seed in the plant world to
one of the tiniest shore birds, from a piece of bark with a familiar
smell to a human skeleton.
Slightly more complex than "Stumpers" are the Discovery Boxes.
Question-and-answer cards in the boxes, in French and English,
give simple information and illustrations. All the boxes offer some
sort of challenge. With the archaeology box, one can reconstruct a
plate by piecing together pottery sherds, following the clues that
archaeologists use to learn more about the sherds they dig up.
The third type of component, Identification Units, includes study
collections of such specimens as fossils, butterflies, insects, and
prehistoric artifacts of the Great Lakes region. Each I.D. Unit func¬
tions rather like a "do-it-yourself' kit which the visitor can use in
conjunction with the tools and written material provided to iden¬
tify objects or specimens. Because the contents of the units are
drawn mainly from the Museum's collections, they serve as an
introduction to the galleries. Visitors may also bring their own
material and, using an I.D. Unit, identify their specimens.
Throughout the year, various components in the room were
evaluated and, as a result, some units were modified and others
replaced so that they would correspond better to the interests and
needs of visitors. Much of the information gleaned from the
evaluations will be useful in the development of future galleries.
Invertebrate Fossils Gallery The new Invertebrate Fossils
Gallery, arranged as an evolutionary sequence, includes a diorama
showing what the Toronto area looked like millions of years ago. It
also contains a variety of live specimens.
Like the Discovery Room, the Invertebrate Fossils Gallery is a "test"
gallery from which we hope to learn more about what makes an
effective gallery. Studies of visitors' reactions indicate that most
visitors correctly perceived the purpose of the gallery and that a
high proportion understood its organization and the various
display techniques used. Most showed great interest in the
content of the gallery, particularly in the live exhibits. Perhaps not
surprisingly, in view of the live specimens, children and
adolescents showed a most enthusiastic response to the gallery.
Life Sciences Galleries A large-scale rearrangement of the
South Gallery on the third floor was accomplished during the year.
Cases were refurbished and reorganized to permit better display
of animal mounts, new labels were prepared, and the gallery was
updated-the first major attempt at modernizing the displays in
this gallery since 1936.
Arthropod Gallery The rearrangement of the displays on the
third floor provided space for the first phase of the new Arthropod
Gallery, which includes five exhibits of living invertebrates among
its 25 cases. Dr. G.B. Wiggins and Dr. D. Barr of the Department of
Entomology prepared the storylines for the cases; they also
researched and prepared label copy for the first four cases and the
five exhibits of living invertebrates. Mr. T. Yamamoto and
Mr. B. Marshall of the same department collaborated with the staff
of other departments on the practical details of installing the
exhibits. Mr. Marshall established a programme of maintenance of
the living invertebrates on display and trained several other staff
members to assist with this function. He also organized a larger
menagerie within the department to ensure a supply of replace¬
ment specimens in case any of those on display should be lost.
Planetarium Shows
The McLaughlin Planetarium presented four public shows in its
Theatre of the Stars. New Worlds, shown until October 16, 1977,
was written by Dr. T.R. Clarke and Mr. T. Alden. Mr. Alden also
wrote Astrology: The Wheel of Fortunes, which was shown for
two periods: October 20 to November 27, 1977, and January 17
to March 13, 1978. The Christmas Star was shown from December 2,
1977, to January 2, 1978, and Distances and Dreams, written by
Dr. Clarke, from March 17 to July 1978.
The new theatre assembly area in the Planetarium, May 1978.
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The Zeiss projector underwent extensive maintenance during
the year. The result was fewer shows for both the public and
school groups, but a much more reliable instrument for some time
to come.
At the end of June 1978, Laserium completed a full three-year run
at the Planetarium, and it was decided to terminate the booking
and seek other forms of programming. Consequently, The Heavy
Water Light Show will make its appearance at the Star Theatre
beginning in July 1978.
Approximately 440,000 people attended the Laserium show
during its three-year stay at the Planetarium.
Temporary Exhibitions and Programmes
Exhibitions Both of this year's major exhibitions, A Gather of
Glass and Austria Presents Hundertwasser to the Continents, were
coordinated by the European Department.
A Gather of Glass was an exhibition of 500 pieces of glass chosen
from the Museum's collections to demonstrate the importance of
glass through the ages. As well as the European Department, the
Canadiana, Far Eastern, Greek and Roman, and West Asian depart¬
ments all contributed to its organization and provided pieces for
the exhibition. Between its opening on October 7 and its closing
on December 31, 1977, a total of 63,760 people visited the display
and 6,400 attended the complementary programmes, which
included demonstrations of glass blowing and glass engraving,
concerts by a glass orchestra, glass identification clinics,
and lectures.
The other major exhibition, Austria Presents Hundertwasser to the
Continents, opened on June 1, 1978, and is scheduled to close on
July 31. In its first month, the exhibition has attracted nearly 37,000
visitors. The exhibition includes paintings, graphics,
architectural models, and tapestries by the internationally renowned
Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Hundertwasser's film,
entitled Hundertwasser's Rainy Day, is being shown on Tuesdays
and Wednesdays throughout the duration of the exhibition.
The very successful exhibition In the Presence of the Dragon
Throne, which was organized by the Textile Department and
opened in April 1977, was held over until August 14. Between its
opening and its closing, 148,843 people visited the display and
7,572 of these attended a wide variety of complementary pro¬
grammes. These programmes included tours of Chinatown,
demonstrations of T'ai Chi and Chinese calligraphy, lectures on
Chinese costume, films, and a number of exhibitions. The Chinese
community in Toronto gave strong support to the show and con¬
tributed much time and effort to many of the programmes.
The Textile Department was very active in 1977-78, organizing
ten temporary exhibitions, which included Fashions of the Crown¬
ing Years, to mark the Queen's Jubilee; The Embroiderers' Art;
Hooked Rugs; Costume from the World of Islam; Textiles from
North Africa and the Middle East; Embroidery from the Imperial
Courts of China ; The lapanese Kimono; Tunisian Carpets;
Fashionable lewellery; and Toiles de louy, an exhibition of French
18th-century textiles.
The Ethnology Department continued its programme of exhibiting
Contemporary Native Art of Canada with five exhibitions in
the series. One of these exhibitions, Quillwork by Native Peoples
in Canada, was subsequently shown at the McCord Museum
in Montreal.
Other departments involved in setting up temporary exhibitions
during 1977-78 included the Far Eastern Department with a very
popular exhibition of Chinese fan paintings from the collection of
the late Mr. Chan Yee Pong of Toronto, and the Greek and Roman
Department, which coordinated the exhibition The Celtic
Heritage, a display of artifacts from the British Isles and the
Continent encompassing the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the Early
Christian period. The artifacts were chosen from the Greek and
Roman Department and the Office of the Chief Archaeologist.
Through the generosity of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval
Studies, Trinity College, and Wycliffe College, the exhibition also
contained facsimiles of several masterpieces of mature Celtic
art, including the Ardagh Chalice and the Books of Durrow,
Lindisfarne, and Kells.
Anne Yeats, daughter of W.B. Yeats,
formally opens The Celtic Heritage
exhibition, February 7, 1978.
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Sentries at the opening of the War of 1812
exhibition, Canadiana Building, September
23, 1977.
The Egyptian Department produced an exhibition of the Arts of
Ancient Meroe, and the West Asian Department organized a
temporary exhibition of the Chubayra excavations in Iran. This
extraordinary site originally involved a series of prehistoric tombs
cut into a natural mound. Later, between the 12th and 14th
centuries, the tombs were converted into the underground
storage rooms of a Muslim town. These cellars yielded some
unusual bronze utensils, some very large unglazed storage jars,
and many beautiful glazed potsherds.
The Canadiana Department provided four temporary exhibitions
in 1977-78: Two Gentlewomen of Upper Canada, The War of
1812, Early Canadian Faces, and a Christmas exhibition of 19th-
century Canadian toys.
The science departments also contributed to the extensive tem¬
porary exhibitions programme. The Department of Ichthyology
and Herpetology produced Harbingers of Spring, an exhibition
designed to help people recognize some of the little-known
amphibians that make the familiar sounds heralding spring. It
brought together living individuals of 16 species of frogs, toads,
and salamanders. These were coordinated with colour
photographs and a colour videotape which gave commentary,
photos, and vocalizations of frogs and toads. The exhibition proved
very popular, especially with young visitors.
The Department of Botany gave us Seeds and Beads and The
Royal Navy and Indian Farmers: the Pollen Connection. The
Department of Invertebrate Palaeontology presented Fossils
through the Mails, an exhibition of postage stamps portraying
fossils from around the world; The Diversity of Life; and Sea Shells
of the World. The Department of Mammalogy contributed a
display of unusual ant-eating mammals, and the Department of
Mineralogy and Geology prepared the exhibition Minerals of
Tsumeb, South West Africa. This department also had a special
display in the Mineralogy Galleries as a memorial to Alan Kulan
who was killed in the Yukon. Alan Kulan was a longtime friend and
benefactor of the department.
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The Department of Entomology organized the exhibition Insects in
Your Life and the Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology pro¬
duced an exhibition depicting Dr. G. Edmund's work on the giant
ground sloth from Florida. The latter emphasized the processes of
collection, preparation, and study of bones from a fossil site.
Two shows provided by the McLaughlin Planetarium represent the
first major contributions of the Planetarium to the Museum's tem¬
porary exhibitions programme. The first, Mars: Evolution of a
Planet, traced the historical development of our knowledge of the
planet from ancient times, when it was thought of as a god,
through the ages of discovery and of science-fiction fantasy, to the
photographs and results of the Viking space probes. Retrospective
Space Art by Zigi was the second exhibition produced by
the Planetarium.
Programmes Museum programmes this year included films,
lectures, concerts, tours, poetry readings, demonstrations of glass
blowing, T'ai Chi and Chinese calligraphy, the Museum's first
participation in Metro International Caravan, and ROMARAMA, an
event organized by the Members' Committee in which all depart¬
ments participated.
The Summer Garden Concert series attracted a faithful following
of approximately 400 folk-music fans each Thursday evening from
July 14 to August 25. Dinosaur Day at the Museum, which was
held on March 23 during the school spring break, saw children lin¬
ing up outside the Museum before opening time so that they
might be on time to purchase the first of a new set of the ever-
popular dinosaur models. On Dinosaur Day more than 1,000
children attended the three film programmes on dinosaurs, shown
in the ROM theatre.
The Royal Ontario Museum became Discovery N.W.T. for Caravan
1978. During the nine days of Caravan, 6,000 passport holders
attended the evening programmes held in the Museum garden
and in the McLaughlin Planetarium.
Special programmes of workshops, films, and concerts were
presented during Guitar Week 78, which attracted more than
1,700 people.
Concerts were held each Sunday evening in February in the Cana-
diana Building. More than 300 people braved the winter weather
to attend the series. The children's film series presented during the
week of December 26 attracted nearly 600 young visitors to the
ROM theatre.
A complete calendar of events for 1977-78 appears as Appendix 3.
Publishing Programme
Following a review of the Museum's publishing programme two
years ago, it was decided that a separate department was both
justified and necessary to expand what was a very important
means of communicating our knowledge to the public. Accord¬
ingly, the Publication Services Department was established and
charged with the responsibility of publishing the general and
scholarly works written by Museum staff as well as of overseeing
the production of all printed materials in the Museum. During
the expansion and renovation of the main Museum building,
the department's offices have been moved off-site to 180 Bloor
Street West.
In the two years since it was established, the department has
devoted its efforts to developing a programme to widen the scope
of ROM publications, to expanding its activities in the field
of general publishing, and to developing marketing strategies for
the publications.
The effects of this long-term enterprise are already being seen with
a 14% increase in sales of books in 1977-78 (making a total
increase of 67% in two years), and with the signing of the first
contract between the Museum and a commercial foreign publisher
for the sale of foreign rights to a ROM publication. The contract
was for a Swedish edition of Dorothy Burnham's very popular Cut
My Cote which will be published by Wahlstrom and Widstrand
of Stockholm.
An outstanding production in 1977-78 was Studies in Textile
History, a volume of essays compiled in memory of the late
Harold B. Burnham and edited by Dr. V. Gervers. The 25 experts
who contributed to the book represent 10 different countries. This
volume brings to 206 the number of titles available through the
ROM's publishing programme.
Identification and Other Informational Services
One of the curatorial services most in demand by the public is the
identification of artifacts and specimens. Curatorial departments in
the Museum reserve one day a week for this service and last year
they dealt with many thousands of requests.
For example, the Far Eastern Department identified 820 objects for
330 visitors, and the Greeek and Roman Department identified
1,200. The staff of the Department of New World Archaeology
identified not only numerous artifacts but also some natural
objects that had been thought to be man-made. In one instance,
this service led to the discovery of a potentially important site in
Ontario, which will be investigated in the near future. The Textile
Department identified materials for 275 members of the public
and responded to more than 3,000 letters and telephone requests
for information on textiles.
The Department of Botany identified great numbers of plant
specimens, and the Department of Entomology and Invertebrate
Zoology provided information and identification of household and
garden invertebrates. The Department of Mineralogy and Geology
provided identification of rocks, minerals, and gems both for
the public and for the mining industry. Curatorial staff of the
Department of Ornithology handled scores of queries on bird
identification and general ornithology for the public and amateur
naturalist groups.
The Department of Invertebrate Palaeontology identified over 400
fossil specimens and answered numerous telephone and written
enquiries for identification services. Staff of the Department
of Mammalogy also provided identification of a great many
specimens and responded to many telephone and written
enquiries.
Besides responding to personal, telephone, and written requests
for information, the Planetarium operated a taped telephone
message providing current astronomical information.
The Conservation Department received an average of 30 calls a
week from members of the public who wanted advice on the care
of their artifacts.
Programmes for Special Groups
School Groups
The Education Services Department has seven accredited full-time
teachers and 15 part-time teachers who conduct school classes in
the Museum's galleries. The lessons are closely integrated with the
school curriculum and are part of the students' formal educational
programme. Teachers from every area of Ontario take advantage
of these classes to enrich their students' learning.
In the past school year 1977-78, 82,243 students attended classes
conducted by Museum teachers, and 59,464 came to the Museum
Students (school band) from Annapolis Royal Academy, Annapolis Royal,
Nova Scotia, tackling the serpent.
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for classes conducted by their own teachers. In all, 14,895
teachers accompanied students to the Museum.
Several groups, including students from Leaside High School and
Humberside High School and senior design students from The
Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, took a series of classes in the
Museum. The Ryerson students received instruction for their credit
course 'The History of Costume", the classes being conducted
jointly by staff from the Education Services Department and from
the Textile Department.
A number of school groups from the Toronto Board of Education
were given behind-the-scenes tours of the Ethnology Department.
In some cases, department staff also provided the students with
special lectures on the ethnology galleries.
The McLaughlin Planetarium offers special shows for school groups
in its Theatre of the Stars. During 1977-78 these shows were
attended by 58,790 students and teachers. As a result of frequent
direct contact with school boards, staff of the Planetarium, too,
were able to develop school shows that are closely integrated
with the school curriculum.
In addition, Planetarium staff conducted special tours of the
Planetarium for a number of teachers and school groups, and
visited several schools to give lectures. Three students from the
North York Board of Education came to the Planetarium for several
days to learn about the behind-the-scenes work that goes into the
production of shows.
Members' Committee, and other volunteers, all of whom have
had years of acquaintance with the Museum. On Monday morn¬
ings, when primary grade classes are scheduled to visit the
Museum, volunteers wearing large identification badges are
available in the appropriate galleries to answer questions or to
assist teachers. This programme is being evaluated and indications
are that it is successful and will be resumed with the opening of
the new school year.
Young People
The Saturday Morning Club, for young people in grades 4 through
10, continued its activities in 1977-78, with an enrolment of 660
(330 in each of two ten-week semesters), and a total attendance
for the year of 5,112. In the previous year there had been 256 par¬
ticipants in each of the two semesters. The club is operated by the
Education Services Department, which draws on the staff and
resources of almost all departments in the Museum. The young
people participate in a variety of activities in the galleries and
for some of their projects use workrooms and laboratories in
the departments.
A new venture for the Education Services Department was the
organization of a Student Art Show. The show comprised 67 works
of art selected from a much larger number submitted by second¬
ary school and community college students who regularly use
the Museum as a source of subject matter for their practical work.
The works were judged and five prizes were awarded at a short
ceremony; then all the works were exhibited in the Museum for
three weeks.
To assist teachers and parents who accompany primary grade
classes, the Museum began production of a series of teaching aids
for use in the galleries. Since earlier studies had indicated that the
most popular gallery for younger students is the Dinosaur Gallery,
the first pamphlet produced was A Guide to the Dinosaur Gallery
for Teachers and Parents. It was made available at a small cost to
teachers and others interested in becoming more proficient in
teaching children about dinosaurs.
In another project designed to provide assistance to teachers of
primary classes, the Education Services Department launched a
pilot programme with the help of volunteers from EOROM (a
Museum club for senior citizens), representatives from the
In 1977 the Education Services Department introduced a pilot pro¬
ject entitled ROM Rambles. These were illustrated activity sheets
designed to guide young people through particular galleries and to
enhance their enjoyment. An evaluation of the programme
indicated the need for some modification of the sheets, and the
department has now begun production of 12 shorter versions of
ROM Rambles, to be entitled ROMaround.
Teachers
In October 1977 the Ontario Teachers' Federation and the Royal
Ontario Museum cooperated in the presentation of a Teachers'
Night, which attracted 2,000 teachers and guests. Elementary,
secondary, and post-secondary teachers who live within
Art Jamieson conducting a class in the
Greek Sculpture Court.
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commuting distance of the Museum participated. Curatorial staff
and teachers from the Education Services Department provided
information on the galleries. The Museum's study rooms and
laboratories were opened to the visiting teachers, and Museum
experts gave explanatory talks throughout the evening.
The Ontario Teachers' Federation also assisted the Museum by
including the School Broadsheet in its mailings to teachers. We are
very grateful for the help and advice of officials of the Federation,
which have been vital to the success of some Museum programmes
for teachers.
During the year three members of the Education Services Depart¬
ment were associates of the Faculty of Education, University of
Toronto. They assisted, observed, and evaluated seven student
teachers whose subjects included art, history, and science, and
who had chosen to do a practice-teaching session at the Museum.
University Students
In addition to assisting the Education Services Department in
developing educational programmes for elementary and second¬
ary school students, the curatorial staff of the Royal Ontario
Museum have a long tradition of university teaching at both the
undergraduate and graduate levels. The year under review was an
exceptionally active year in this respect.
Department of Botany Dr. J.H. McAndrews taught three courses
at the University of Toronto and supervised two graduate
students. Mr. J. Riley served as a teaching assistant for a botany
course at the University of Toronto.
Department of Invertebrate Palaeontology In addition to super¬
vising a graduate student, Dr. P.H. von Bitter taught a course on
"The Geological Record of Evolution" at the University of Toronto;
together with Dr. G. Norris and Dr. R. Ludvigsen, he also taught a
course on "Regional Stratigraphy". Mrs. J. Waddington taught the
first half of "Stratigraphy and Palaeontology" at Erindale College.
Department of Mammalogy Dr. R.L. Peterson and Dr. J.R. Tamsitt
taught a course in mammalogy at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Peterson supervised the programmes of four Ph.D. students
and served on several Ph.D. examining committees, and Dr. Tam¬
sitt served on the supervisory committees of three Ph.D. students
and on one Ph.D. examining committee. Dr. Tamsitt gave three
seminars at the Pontifica Javeriana University in Bogota and
another at the University of Texas. He also supervised the research
of a graduate student of the Javeriana University.
Department of Mineralogy and Geology Dr. F.J. Wicks lectured to
graduate students at the University of Toronto and conducted a
seminar on serpentine mineral textures for the Geological Survey
of Canada. Dr. T.E. Krogh delivered lectures at the University of
Western Ontario, McMaster University, Queen's University, and
Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Department of Entomology and Invertebrate Zoology Curatorial
staff took on an extensive teaching load. Dr. G.B. Wiggins shared
responsibility for teaching aquatic entomology with Professor R.J.
Mackay of the University of Toronto; Dr. D. Barr taught courses in
invertebrate zoology and entomology, also at the University of
Toronto, and helped with the Second International Field Work¬
shop in Aquatic Invertebrates given by St. Lawrence University.
Both Dr. Wiggins and Dr. Barr supervised the research projects of
students at various levels of university work.
Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology Dr. E.J. Crossman
taught one course and supervised the graduate training of four
students at the University of Toronto. He also served on the
supervisory committees of six graduate students at the University
of Toronto, Guelph University, and the State University of New
York. Dr. A.R. Emery taught the fishery biology portion of a fish
and wildlife course at the Faculty of Forestry and Landscape
Architecture, University of Toronto and supervised an M.Sc.
student. He also lectured to the Hart House Underwater Club, the
Association of Electrical Engineers, and the State University of New
York at Buffalo.
Department of Ornithology Curatorial staff were actively involved
in teaching at the Department of Zoology, University of Toronto.
Dr. J.C. Barlow and Dr. R.D. James taught the graduate/
undergraduate course "Systematic Ornithology", and Dr. Barlow
supervised the research of seven graduate students. Dr. A.J. Baker
taught the graduate course "Statistical Methods in Biological
Classification", and the advanced course "Tactics of Evolution", as
well as supervising two graduate students Dr. H.G. Savage taught
a graduate course on faunal archaeo-osteology and an
undergraduate course on fauna! analysis. Invited lectures were
given by Dr. Baker to the Institute of Taxonomic Zoology, Univer¬
sity of Amsterdam, and the Biology Faculty of York University, and
by Dr. Barlow at the universities of Arizona and Michigan.
Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology Dr. G. Edmund again
presented the course "Advanced Palaeontology" at the University
of Toronto, with the assistance of Dr. L.S. Russell, Dr. C.
McGowan, Mr. C. Breede (West Asian Department), and Mr. M.
Heaton of Erindale College. Dr. McGowan taught a short course
on evolutionary biology as part of a zoology course at the Univer¬
sity of Toronto and contributed to Dr. T.S Parsons' vertebrate
palaeontology course. He also supervised the work of two
graduate students. Dr. Russell gave guest lectures to students in
the vertebrate palaeontology and advanced palaeontology
courses.
McLaughlin Planetarium Astronomy courses given by staff were
"Explorations of the Universe" by Dr. H.C. King, "Introducing
Astronomy" by Mr. N. Green, "Fundamentals for the Amateur
Astronomer" and "Introduction to Observing" by Mr. I. McGregor.
As their titles suggest, some of these courses were directed to
the layman.
A total of 860 students from York University, the University of
Toronto, including Erindale College and Scarborough College, and
Brock University attended 10 special lecture-demonstrations at the
McLaughlin Planetarium as part of their astronomy courses. In
addition, two University of Toronto astronomy classes used the
Star Theatre for laboratory sessions and star identification.
Staff of the art and archaeology departments were no less active
than their colleagues in the science departments.
Canadiana Department Mr. D.B. Webster taught his regular
graduate course on North American decorative arts at the Univer¬
sity of Toronto.
Ethnology Department Dr. H. Fuchs taught a course in the
Department of Visual Arts at York University. Dr. E.S. Rogers
taught two courses at McMaster University, in addition to supervis¬
ing a Ph.D. candidate and serving on the Ph.D. and M.A. thesis
committees in Ethnohistory.
Egyptian Department Dr. N. Millet and Mr. A.J. Mills taught
undergraduate and graduate courses and supervised thesis work in
the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Toronto.
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European Department Mr. H. Hickl-Szabo shared the teaching of a
University of Toronto fine arts course with Mrs. R.J. Bacso, Mr. C.P.
Kaellgren, and Mr. K.C. Keeble. Mr. Keeble also gave evening
courses at the University of Toronto on medieval art and architec¬
ture and on Renaissance sculpture. Mr. L. Cselenyi tutored two
University of Toronto students in their graduate programmes and
assisted fine art students from York University and the Ontario
College of Art.
Far Eastern Department Dr. C.H. Hsu held regular colloquiums
and seminars on recent Chinese archaeological activities and con¬
ducted a graduate seminar in Chinese philology at the University
of Toronto.
Creek and Roman Department Mrs. N. Leipen taught part of a
University of Toronto course on Creek terracotta figurines. Her
colleague Dr. J.W. Hayes served on Ph.D. committees for the
universities of Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Department of New World Archaeology Dr. K.C. Day was cross-
appointed to the Department of Anthropology, University of
Toronto, where he taught a course on Andean prehistory. He was
also cross-appointed to the Department of Anthropology, Trent
University, where he taught a graduate seminar on method and
theory in archaeology. Dr. P.L. Storck lectured at the University of
Waterloo and at Scarborough College.
Office of the Chief Archaeologist Chief Archaeologist Dr. A.D.
Tushingham continues to hold his position as a professor in the
Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Toronto, and
has been reappointed a Fellow of Victoria College. His lectures
this year have generally been directed to the public. However, he
gave a series of three lectures on the crown jewels of Iran for
students and the public at the University of Texas in San Antonio,
and a series of invited lectures at the University of Tubingen to
celebrate the centennial of the Deutscher Verein zur Erforschung
Palastinas.
Textile Department Dr. V. Cervers, who is cross-appointed to the
Division of Humanities, Scarborough College, University of
Toronto, gave occasional lectures at that college, as well as at
St. Michael's College. Mr. J.E. Vollmer and Mrs. M. Holford both
lectured at the University of Toronto and the Ryerson
Polytechnical Institute.
West Asian Department Members taught courses at the University
of Toronto, at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Mr. C.
Breede also gave a series of lectures on archaeological field
methods at Sir Wilfrid Laurier University. In addition, staff of the
department gave lectures at Scarborough College and the Ryerson
Polytechnical Institute, at Harvard and Columbia universities, and
in Iran.
Conservation Department Mrs. E. Phillimore gave two lectures to
students in the Ontario College of Art dealing with both natural
and synthetic materials used to produce artifacts and works of art
from antiquity to the present and their behaviour and capacity to
survive the tests of time and changing environments. A similar
historical survey of materials and techniques was given to York
University fine art students by means of a conducted tour of the
ROM galleries. Members of the department provided supervision
of three conservation interns from the Queen's University
graduate programme in art conservation and technicians from
both Sir Sandford Fleming and Algonquin colleges.
Museology For more than 10 years, the School of Graduate
Studies, University of Toronto, has offered the museology degree
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programme. In this programme, graduate students study
museology along with other courses in a chosen field of specializa¬
tion. The Royal Ontario Museum, through its Museology Depart¬
ment, has had a long association with the programme, which
provides trained personnel to staff the growing number of
museums and art galleries.
The year under review was a significant one for the programme. A
School of Graduate Studies Decanal Review Committee, which
was chaired by Assistant Dean R.H. Painter and included represen¬
tatives from the Royal Ontario Museum, issued a report with
recommendations for changes in both the museology syllabus and
the administration of the programme. The Council of the Graduate
School of the University of Toronto has approved the report and
implementation of its recommendations is under way.
Responsibility for administering and supervising the Master of
Museology programme has now been assigned to the Institute for
History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of
Toronto. A working committee has been convened to oversee the
content and organization of the museology courses offered by
the Royal Ontario Museum and to be responsible for the selection
of students, course load, and students' major-paper topics
for eventual approval by the relevant academic department of
the University.
The residence period for the Master of Museology degree has
been extended from 15 months to 20 months— two academic
sessions, and the intervening summer. This longer programme
encompasses a second museology course and extends the super¬
vised internship period from six months to a full year, and so
strengthens the museology part of the degree. We are confident
that the changes brought about by the review will greatly improve
the quality of museology training that students will receive.
In 1977-78 the National Museums of Canada provided financial
assistance for 11 students to take their first internship period (May
to August) in the Museum and in the Art Gallery of Ontario. The
students were assigned for nine weeks to the Education Services
Department, where they observed classes being taught in the
galleries, wrote reports, and, as a group, planned and conducted
lessons in specific galleries for small groups of young students. In
addition, the staff of the Conservation Department provided them
with 40 hours of lectures and workshops, and a number of
curators and administrators contributed training sessions
throughout the students' first internship period.
For example, one student worked in the Greek and Roman
Department, where under the supervision of Mrs. A.H. Easson, she
developed a coin box for the Discovery Room as part of her
studies. The box introduced visitors to ancient Greek coins.
Another student worked for some weeks in the office of the Assis¬
tant Director, Administration, drafting policies and procedures on
the administrative aspects of running a museum. The students will
spend their second internship period in institutions in Quebec, the
Northwest Territories, and Mexico. We are grateful to the National
Museums of Canada for the financial assistance provided to the
museology programme.
Senior Citizens
Some of our most enthusiastic students and volunteers are to be
found among the members of FOROM, "Friends of the Royal
Ontario Museum", a club for senior citizens operated by the
Education Services Department. The 160 members, in two groups,
attended talks by curators and visiting scholars, visited the
Museum's departments "behind the scenes", saw films, and went
on outings to places such as the Law Society of Upper Canada's
Campbell House.
Many members of FOROM also enjoy the Tuesday films for
seniors, offered through the Programmes and Public Relations
Department. This programme grew out of the month-long celebra¬
tion of Senior Citizens' Week and the Museum's 65th birthday in
June 1977, which proved so popular that it was made into a
regular ROM programme called "Tuesdays for Seniors". Every
Tuesday, seniors are admitted to the Museum and the McLaughlin
Planetarium public shows free of charge and enjoy such events as
Museum-related films, informal talks by curatorial staff, identifica¬
tion clinics, and short concerts. The enthusiastic response to the
"Tuesdays for Seniors" programme attests to its success— approx¬
imately 170 seniors participate each week and the numbers
continue to grow.
Public Service
Many of the Museum's staff donate their services to organizations
whose objectives are allied to their own interests. In 1977-78 staff
of the Museum reviewed scholarly publications, served on com¬
mittees, and helped draft legislation for organizations both at
home and abroad. The scope of these activities is illustrated in the
following paragraphs.
Ethnology Department Dr. E.S. Rogers chaired a site-visiting team
on mercury research for the Department of Health and Welfare
and also a planning committee for a book in the Ontario Historical
Studies series on the history of Indians of Ontario. Dr. H. Fuchs
served as secretary to the International Congress on Human
Ecology; as president of the Mexico-Canada Cultural Association;
and as corresponding member for the Ethnology Museums in
Canada at the International Council of Museums.
West Asian Department Dr. T.C. Young, Jr. completed his term of
office as president of the American Institute of Iranian Studies, and
his colleague Dr. L.D. Levine completed his term as secretary of
that body.
Department of Mammalogy Dr. R.L. Peterson served as chairman
of the board, Metropolitan Toronto Zoological Society; as vice-
chairman of the board of management and as chairman of the
Animal Care and Research Committee for the Metro Toronto Zoo;
and as a director of the Toronto Anglers' and Hunters' Association.
He also served the American Society of Mammalogists in a
number of roles: as a member of the board of directors, as chair¬
man of the H.H.T. Jackson Award Committee, as a member of
the Honorary Membership Committee, and as a member of the
Committee on Legislation and Regulations. He was also a member
of the Canadian delegation to the Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora and attended
meetings in Geneva, Switzerland. In addition, he served on the
National Museums of Canada Task Force on Computer Standards
for Mammalogy.
Department of Mineralogy and Geology Several members of the
department were involved in committees: Dr. J.A. Mandarino con¬
tinued as associate editor and business editor of the Canadian
Mineralogist and served on the Finance Committee of the
Mineralogical Association of Canada. Dr. S.B. Lumbers continued
as correspondent to the International Union of Geological Sciences
Sub-Commission on Precambrian Stratigraphy. Dr. R.L Gait retired
as president of the Mineral Museums Advisory Council but con¬
tinued as subscription manager of the Mineralogical Association of
Canada and served on the Finance Committee of that association.
Dr. T.E. Krogh served as associate editor of Geoscience Canada.
As the 1978 joint annual meeting of the Geological Society of
America/Geological Association of Canada/Mineralogy Association
of Canada (GSA/GAC/MAC) is to be held in Toronto, several
members of the department have been heavily involved in its
organization. Dr. F.J. Wicks is a member of the programme
committee for the meeting and also is organizer and editor of the
MAC Symposium on Serpentine Mineralogy and Petrology. In
addition, he served on the Nominating Committee of the MAC.
Dr. Mandarino reviewed all abstracts in mineralogy-crystallography
submitted for the meeting.
Department of Ornithology Dr. R.D. James was chairman of the
Ontario Records Committee, and Dr. J.C. Barlow participated in a
National Science Foundation workshop on the scientific and
educational use of birds and helped to prepare a proposal bearing
on the future of the discipline of ornithology. Dr. A.J. Baker served
on the Advisory Committee to the National Inventory of Museum
Collections and the Advisory Panel to the Registration Assistance
Programme of the National Museums of Canada. Dr. Barlow was
also elected editor of the international ornithological journal
The Wilson Bulletin.
Department of Entomology Dr. G.B. Wiggins as a member of the
Entomological Society of Canada served on its Scientific Com¬
mittee, supervising the pilot study for a biological survey of the
insects of Canada. In addition, he reviewed manuscripts for a
number of scientific and government organizations and reviewed
two research proposals for the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Dr. D. Barr reviewed manuscripts for several science journals and
served as contributing editor to Ontario Naturalist.
Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology Dr. E.J. Crossman
and Dr. A.R. Emery are governors of the American Society of
Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and Dr. Crossman was recently
elected a councillor of the Canadian Society of Zoologists.
Department of Botany Dr. J.H. McAndrews served as secretary of
the National Research Council Associate Committee for Quater¬
nary Research and as a councillor for the American Quaternary
Association. He was also programme convener for the Ontario
Archaeological Society. Mr. J. Riley was elected a director of the
Toronto Field Naturalists' Club and a member of the Botany Task
Force, National Inventory of Collections.
McLaughlin Planetarium Close liaison is maintained between the
Toronto Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and
the McLaughlin Planetarium, and Planetarium resources are used
in many of the public activities of the Society. Mr. N. Green, an
active member of the Hamilton Centre, was elected national
secretary of the society and Mr. I. McGregor first vice-chairman of
the Toronto Centre and representative to the National Council. In
August 1977 Dr. T.R. Clarke was elected a councillor of the
Planetarium Society of Canada.
Office of the Chief Archaeologist Dr. A.D. Tushingham, Chief
Archaeologist, maintained his long association with the Toronto
Historical Board by accepting election to its Advisory Council.
Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology Dr. L.S. Russell, served
on the Historical Sites Board of the Metropolitan Toronto and
Region Conservation Authority and on the Advisory Committee
on Historic Scientific Artifacts at the University of Toronto.
Conservation Department Mrs. E. Phillimore served on the
executive of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic
and Artistic Works (Canadian Group), and on the Conservation
Committee of the Ontario Museum Association, where she is on a
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sub-committee planning a conservation manual for use in small
museums. Her colleague Ms. S. Wilson is on the Training Commit¬
tee of the OMA and is president of the Museology Student
Association. She and Ms. G. Moir, who is on the executive of the
MSA, helped plan the first Museology Students Association con¬
ference in March 1978 and are editors of its newsletter.
Egyptian Department Mr. A.J. Mills and Dr. N.B. Millet continued
their service with the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities,
to which Mr. Mills was appointed a trustee. Dr. Millet was
also elected vice-president of the American Research Centre in
Egypt, the professional and fund-raising organization for North
American Egyptologists.
Conferences and Workshops
Egyptian Department In October 1977 the department organized
and was host to the Third International Meroitic Conference held
at University College, University of Toronto. Some 40 people from
several countries, including Egypt and the Democratic Republic of
the Sudan, participated in the five-day conference. Materials from
the conference are being prepared for publication by Dr. N.B.
Millet and Mrs. H. Shepley.
Department of Invertebrate Palaeontology Staff of the depart¬
ment were involved in several conferences. Dr. P.H. von Bitter
presented one joint paper with Dr. R. Ludvigsen to the Eastern
Canadian Palaeontology and Biostratigraphy Seminar at the
University of Waterloo and another with G.K. Merrill at the Rocky
Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America in Provo,
Utah. Dr. D.H. Collins and Dr. von Bitter delivered papers at the
North American Paleontological Convention in Kansas.
Department of Ornithology Dr. J.C. Barlow spoke on Empidonax
flycatchers at the Wilson Ornithological Society meeting in
Virginia, and on “European Tree Sparrow Evolution" at the 17th
International Ornithological Congress in West Berlin. Dr. R.D.
James delivered a paper on vireos at the American Ornithologists'
Union meeting in California.
Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology At the annual meeting
of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology, which was held in Los
Angeles, Dr. G. Edmund presented a paper on the evolution of
giant armadillos.
Canadiana Department Mr. D.B. Webster gave a paper entitled
"Early French Ceramics in Quebec" to a symposium on historical
ceramics held in Rochester, N.Y., by the Council for Northeastern
Historical Archaeology.
European Department In April, Mr. C.P. Kaellgren gave a paper,
"20th-Century Design in Glass", to the Bethesda, Md., Chapter of
the National Early American Glass Club at their third National
Capital Glass seminar.
Far Eastern Department Dr. D. Dohrenwend and Dr. C.H. Hsu
lectured to the American Oriental Meeting in Toronto, where
Dr. Hsu also conducted a colloquium on oracle bone chiselled
hollows, using specimens from the ROM collections.
Creek and Roman Department Dr. J.W. Hayes gave papers at
the conference of the international organization for the study of
Roman pottery, Rei Cretari^e Romanae Fautores, at Metz and Nan¬
cy, and at the Salamine de Chypre colloquium at Lyon, France.
Textile Department Mr. J.E. Vollmer presented a paper on the
origins and development of Ch'ing Dynasty costume at the bien¬
nial meeting of the Centre International d'Etude des Textiles
Anciens in London. He also chaired a session of the meeting and
presented a paper on the history and function of Chinese rugs at
the Sixth Annual Rug Convention in Washington, D.C.
West Asian Department In 1978, 400 members of the American
Oriental Society gathered in Toronto for a conference co¬
sponsored by the Museum and the University of Toronto. All
members of the department participated.
Department of Mammalogy Dr. R.L. Peterson and Ms. J. Eger
attended the 8th Annual North American Symposium on Bat
Research, organized by Dr. M.B. Fenton. They presented a paper
on "Variation in the African Molossid Tadarid Bivittata" Dr. R.J.
Tamsitt participated in a panel discussion on animal and human
diseases at the 78th Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Microbiologists in Las Vegas.
Department of Entomology and Invertebrate Zoology Dr. G.B.
Wiggins organized a trichoptera workshop for the 26th Annual
Meeting of the North American Benthological Society (Winnipeg).
He presented a paper at that workshop and a second one in a
workshop on indicator species. Dr. D. Barr also gave two papers
(one co-authored with Dr. J.C. Conroy) at this meeting. Mrs. R.
Carson delivered an informal address and presented a paper to
the International Bryozoologists Association Conference at Woods
Hole, Mass.
Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology Dr. A.R. Emery
delivered a paper at the Ontario Ethological and Ecological Con¬
ference in Kingston, Ontario, and Dr. E.J. Crossman was senior
author of a paper presented at the same conference. Dr. Emery
helped to organize a symposium on damselfish, at which he
chaired a session. He also presented two papers at the annual
meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and
Herpetologists at Tempe, Arizona. Dr. Crossman chaired a session
and presented a paper at the meetings in Quebec of the
Northeastern American Fisheries Society. He was programme
chairman for the annual meeting of the Canadian Conference for
Fisheries Research held in Ottawa, and attended concurrent
meetings of the Canadian Society of Environmental Biologists.
With three of his graduate students, Dr. Crossman attended the
special symposium on Selected Coolwater Species in Minnesota.
All four presented papers on work at Nogies Creek, and
Dr. Crossman chaired a session at the symposium.
Conservation Department In June 1978 Mrs. E. Phillimore attended
the annual meeting of the International Council of Museums; the
annual meeting of the Canadian Museums Association, where she
delivered a paper entitled "An Alternative Plan for Conservation
Services for Small Museums"; and the annual meeting of the Inter¬
national Institute for Conservation (Canadian group), where she
spoke on "The Conservation Department's Involvement in
Planning for Expansion". Earlier in the year she spoke on "Shared
Conservation Services" to the Atlantic Provinces Art Gallery
Association in St. John's, Newfoundland.
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Support from
Our Community
Members' Committee and
Volunteer Support
Every year the Members' Committee gives thousands of hours of
service to the Museum. The year under review was no exception.
Committee members, together with a strong corps of other
dedicated volunteers, worked a total of 17,944 hours, more than
half of them in highly skilled tasks. They served nine curatorial
departments, the Discovery Room, and the Programmes and
Public Relations Department, and were also to be found at the in¬
formation desks in the Museum, where they provided information
to visitors on membership and on the galleries.
This volunteer force organized special events and provided
hostesses at many of the functions that took place in the Museum;
they conducted 754 free public tours of the galleries, the
Planetarium displays, and special exhibitions, for 15,364 visitors;
and they organized the very successful ROMARAMA '78, which
attracted more than 5,000 visitors to the Museum's galleries
and departments. This event alone raised $10,000 which the
Committee donated to the Museum's renovation and expansion
campaign fund.
Volunteers trained by the Education Services Department visited
82 school classrooms to prepare students in grades 5 and 6 for
their visits to the Ethnology, Far Eastern, and Egyptian galleries.
Volunteers from the Members' Committee gave conducted bus
tours of Old Toronto; these proved so popular that the Com¬
mittee decided to make them a regular monthly feature of its
programmes, beginning in September 1978. Volunteers also
organized special luncheons and tours of the Canadiana galleries
and assisted Dr. Walter Tovell with his very popular Geology Bus
Trip to the Niagara District.
In cooperation with Rogers Cable TV, the Members' Committee
produced a half-hour television programme about the ROM
collections. In addition, several members appeared on television
programmes to promote the Museum's special exhibitions
and programmes.
The Members' Committee contributed its services to several
Museum committees, including the one established to improve
the Members' Lounge. Under the gifted and innovative guidance
of "Designing Women", Rosabel Levitt and Elaine Slater, a general
refurbishing and redecorating of the lounge was undertaken, and a
revised menu was introduced. Members were encouraged to
make greater use of the lounge and received special invitations to
visit any Tuesday evening in April and enjoy free cheese, crackers,
and cake. These improved services resulted in a doubling of
the number of members making use of the lounge for lunch
and relaxation.
The Members' Committee also helped in enrolling new members.
We are deeply indebted to the Committee for this support which
helped us to add nearly 500 new members to the rolls. The
receptions held on the evenings of November 21, 1977, and May
8, 1978, to welcome new members to the Museum were well
attended. Each event attracted between 300 and 400 new
members and their guests.
Membership Statistics
June 30,
1977
June 30,
1978
Annual Individual
3,665
3,774
Annual Family*
—
369
Life
927
938
Fellow
48
48
Sustaining
1
2
Benefactor
59
58
Endowment
21
19
Patron
25
25
Founder
—
1
Honorary Life
38
40
4,784
5,274
‘Family memberships reintroduced in November 1977.
The Travel Programme Committee, a subcommittee of the
Members' Committee, planned and hosted trips to Italy, New
Orleans, and Iran for Museum members and led by ROM curators.
ROM Members' Committee World
Civilization Tour to Iran standing on the
east side of Codin Tepe, Iran. Photo by
Joan Randall, April 1978.
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The committee cooperated with the American Research Centre in
Egypt on a trip to that country. The committee realized a surplus
on the trips of $11,700, which was donated to the Museum's
renovation and expansion fund.
The Textile Endowment Fund Committee continued its support of
the ROM Textile Department providing volunteer assistance in the
department and undertaking three money-raising projects: a
lecture series, 'The Gentle Domestic Arts"; a raffle of a beautiful
needlepoint rug that had been worked by members of the com¬
mittee; and a study trip to New York. These projects raised $5,472
which was added to donations to the fund and fees for lectures to
provide a total contribution for the year of $9,000 to support the
Museum's textile collections.
The Royal Ontario Museum has a number of endowed trust funds which have been established by bequests, by donations, or by revenue¬
generating activities of volunteer committees. The following is a list of such funds and the income balances accumulated to June 30, 1978.
Fund
Principal
Balance
Accumulated
Income Balance
The Colin Gordon Fund
Bequest for the preservation of wildlife in Ontario.
$ 20,000
$ 6,914
The R.S. McLaughlin Fund
An endowment established for the on-going development of
the Planetarium.
$1,056,999
$368,155
The ROM Acquisitions Fund
Donations and bequests to provide artifacts and specimens
for the Museum.
$ 691,960
$221,094
The Far Eastern Endowment Fund
Donations, bequests, and revenue from projects organized by
the Bishop White Committee to support the
Far Eastern collections.
$ 94,213
($ 751)
The Textile Endowment Fund
Donations, bequests, and revenue from projects organized by
the Textile Endowment Fund Committee to support the
textile collections.
$ 10,000
$ 8,597
The Archaeological Fund
(established in 1978)
Donations to support archaeological projects.
$ 3,257
Support from the News Media
As a cultural and educational institution, the Royal Ontario
Museum received very comprehensive and supportive media
coverage during 1977-78. On an average, the ROM was men¬
tioned or covered in eight different articles every day throughout
the year in newspapers across the country.
The exhibitions In the Presence of the Dragon Throne, A Gather of
Glass, The War of 1812, and Hundertwasser, and such events as
the opening of the Discovery Room and the release of the ROM's
first record album, Museum Pieces, provided material for a few of
the ROM stories of the year.
In addition to coverage by the print media, the Museum received
excellent coverage by the electronic media. Every major story
about the ROM was covered by radio and television. Radio
stations were especially committed to the Museum and consistently
supported it through their public service announcements. Through
television talk shows not only ROM stories but also the people
connected with them were introduced to the public at both a
regional and a national level.
Some of the most popular stories came from the Museum's
science departments. Communication among fishes, the theatre
shows and technology of the Planetarium, behind-the-scenes work
on dinosaur skeletons, conservation work, the amphibians who
starred in the exhibition Harbingers of Spring— all were well received
and given generous coverage by the media.
The Museum's media coverage was not confined to Canada. Three
full-page stories about the ROM's Canadiana displays and another
about the loan of Chinese artifacts to Japan reached every Cana¬
dian embassy in the world. Through Radio Canada International,
ROM activities were broadcast on English-language stations
throughout Africa, North America, Europe, the Caribbean, and
Latin American countries.
Support from Government
and Educational Institutions
The Ontario Ministry of Education provided the Museum with an
education officer, who was seconded to the ROM for a year to
help organize professional development programmes for teachers
and teachers-in-training. The education officer organized and
conducted workshops in provincial colleges of education for
150 teachers-in-training; he also held workshops for teachers in
London, Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Brockville, and Kingston.
Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology held a fashion
competition among its students for the design and production of
outfits for the Museum's reception staff. Seneca teaching master
Anne Roberts coordinated the competition. Dora Crocco, a third-
year student in fashion arts, designed a crease-resistant, polyester
gabardine suit, shirt, and dress, and Shiang (Christine) Lan Liu made
the patterns and produced the garments. The blue-and-white out¬
fits are now being worn by our staff.
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In addition to the financial assistance that we receive from the
Government of Ontario for the operation of the Museum, various
agencies of government support specific programmes. We were
fortunate this year to receive a number of such grants.
In the fall of 1977, the Museum obtained a Wintario grant of
$124,000 to be used to encourage more people to take advantage
of the learning opportunities available to them in the Museum.
This grant was matched by contributions, including $10,000 pro¬
vided by GRT of Canada Limited to produce an album entitled
Museum Pieces, musical interpretations of the ROM galleries by
noted jazz musician and composer Moe Koffman and his group.
The record has been released in Canada and the United States and
is introducing new audiences to a musical visit to the Museum.
The Wintario grant made possible a significantly larger advertising
programme, which was responsible, at least in part, for improved
attendance at the Museum and Planetarium shows. The grant also
supported a special survey to assist the Museum in evaluating new
public relations activities. The survey produced some interesting
views on the Museum, and even people who had not visited the
Museum for a long time were conscious of its place in the cultural
life of Canada and were appreciative of its role in society and of its
value both to the province and to the country.
Finally, the grant made possible the production of a number of
brochures, booklets, and flyers telling people about the Museum,
its services, and its programmes. One very important new booklet,
What's in the ROM for You, was widely distributed through hotels,
information and tourist centres, libraries, and many other informa¬
tion outlets. A monthly calendar of events, What's on at the ROM,
was also distributed through these outlets, and, beginning in June
1978, through 180 supermarkets in southern Ontario. The super¬
market outlets were first tested with a new brochure, The ROM
Belongs to You, promoting Museum membership. Other publica¬
tions included the first in a series of brochures on the science
galleries, a Gift Shop flyer, and a brochure on the new Discovery
Room, as well as four issues of a School Broadsheet produced
especially for Ontario schools.
The Outdoor Recreation Section of the Ontario Ministry of Natural
Resources made funds available to the Department of Ichthyology
and Herpetology for a study of the biology of the bullfrog. Almost
no information is at present available on the population and
reproductive biology of Ontario's largest amphibian. As a result of
this programme, the Ministry will receive information on this
subject to help formulate management policies for protecting the
dwindling number of bullfrogs, which are harvested both privately
and commercially, while the department will have additional infor¬
mation in an area in which it specializes.
For several years the Department of Ornithology has been re¬
cording its collection with the National Inventory Programme in
Ottawa. In 1977-78 a grant was received from the National
Museums of Canada which will enable the Department of
Ornithology to continue this work and the Textile Department to
begin recording its collection.
The National Museums of Canada made a generous grant to the
Conservation Department for the purchase of a hot table for
the lining of paintings. The department also received support from
the Young Canada Works Programme for three graduate student
internships.
Other agencies providing grants for research projects included the
Canada Council, which awarded grants to Dr. H.S. Loten and Dr. J.
Lambert, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada, which partially supported Dr. D.M. Pendergast in his
work at the Lamanai site, the work of Dr. L. Golombek, Dr. L.D.
Levine, and Dr. T.C. Young, Jr., in their three separate sites in Iran
and Iraq, Dr. V. Gervers' continuing research on felt-making,
Dr. P.L. Storck's work in Ontario archaeology, and Dr. J. Shaw's
work in Crete at a joint ROM/University of Toronto project.
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
has also approved subventions to assist the publication of a
number of ROM books now in production. Among these are:
Oracle Bones from the White and Other Collections by C.H. Hsu;
the first Canadian fascicule of Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum by
J.W. Hayes; Excavations at Altun Ha, Belize, 1964-1970 by D.M.
Pendergast; and A Catalogue of British and Irish Prehistoric
Bronzes in the Royal Ontario Museum by F.M. Pryor. A grant in aid
of publication was received from this same source in 1977-78
for Studies in Textile History, the memorial volume for Harold
Burnham edited by Veronika Gervers.
Further support for the publications programme has come from
the Learning Materials Development Plan, 1978 of the Ontario
Ministry of Education, which is making possible the publication of a
French edition of Mary Jones's The Confederation Generation.
(The English edition of The Confederation Generation will be
published in both trade and school editions in October 1978.)
The Canadian Wildlife Service provided funds to cover the cost of
producing the annual report of the New Records Scheme and gave
a further grant to support field work on Manitoulin Island. In addi¬
tion, the National Research Council of Canada supported some of
the research activities of Dr. R.L. Peterson, Dr. J.R. Tamsitt, Dr. A.J.
Baker, Dr. J.C. Barlow, Dr. J.H. McAndrews, Dr. C. McGowan,
Dr. G.B. Wiggins, Dr. D. Barr, and Dr. T.E. Krogh, and the Canadian
National Sportsmen's Show supported the work of such depart¬
ments as Ichthyology and Herpetology, Mammalogy, and
Ornithology. Funds were also received by the Department of
Botany in the form of grants from the Ontario Heritage Foundation
and the National Research Council, and a contract with
Parks Canada.
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Helping Ourselves
Through Revenue
Generation
The Royal Ontario Museum engages in a number of revenue¬
generating activities that help to support its operations. Included in
these are the revenues produced through the Museum's shops.
Book and Gift Shops
Contributing to the overall increase in annual sales in 1977-78 was
the growth of 100% in the Christmas sales. This was partly
attributable to the Christmas gift brochure distributed to members
and given out to visitors to the Museum, and to the larger space
allocated to the Christmas booth, which in 1977 was located in the
Armour Court.
The production of a number of items of special interest to children
also resulted in a growth of sales. These include two new edu-
colour books, one on dinosaurs and one on insects; six fashion
dolls to cut out, dress, and colour; eight models of dinosaurs;
dinosaur tee-shirts; and Egyptian and dinosaur buttons. All were
best-sellers but the models of the dinosaurs led the field. From the
time they went on sale in early March to the end of June, more
than 20,000 models were sold.
The Museum this year entered into an arrangement with Twiggs
and Co. of Boston, Mass., to produce a line of drapery materials
from designs adapted from some of the fine fabrics in the ROM's
textile collections. The Museum is receiving royalties from the sale
of this material in the United States and in Canada.
The audio-visual learning materials kits produced by the Education
Services Department continue to sell well. More than 1,000 of the
four kits have been sold at $60.00 each. Le Musee du Saguenay,
Chicoutimi, Quebec, purchased a number of units in the modular
exhibit system this year. The system provides security for exhibits
and permits pleasing displays under highly controlled conditions
of conservation.
Teaching and Consulting Fees
Revenue to help the activities of the various departments of the
Museum is also generated by making available to others the vast
range of skills and resources to be found in these departments.
Fees for teaching and lecturing at universities, consultancy fees
from industrial firms and other private concerns, and fees for
specimen identification services all provide much-needed funds.
During 1977-78 all curatorial departments received some funds in
exchange for their teaching services in regular courses at the
University of Toronto, Erindale, Scarborough, and St. Michael's col¬
leges, McMaster University, Trent University, and the University of
Guelph. Many departments received additional funds in the form
of consultants' fees. A few examples are the consultancy fees from
pesticide companies and advertising agencies received by the
Department of Mammalogy; the compensation from Chevron
Minerals Ltd. to the Department of Invertebrate Palaeontology for
Dr. von Bitter's work on the micropalaeontology of samples from
the Windsor Group of Cape Breton Island; and the revenue
earned by the Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology for its
services to environmental consultants and for identification
services to commercial concerns. This department also received a
small sum from the Toronto Anglers' and Hunters' Association
conservation fund in recognition of its contribution to local
sportfishing.
The Department of Mineralogy and Geology generated funds by
providing specialist services, including the production of thin
sections, to mining companies.
Hundreds of children lined up long before
opening hour on "Dinosaur Day", the day
the new small dinosaur models went on
sale in the Mini Shop.
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Auditors' Report
To the Trustees of
The Royal Ontario Museum:
We have examined the balance sheet of The Royal Ontario
Museum as at June 30, 1978 and the statement of financial
operations for the year then ended. Our examination was made
in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards, and
accordingly included such tests and other procedures as we
considered necessary in the circumstances, except as noted in the
following paragraph.
Bequests, grants and donations to trust accounts, by their nature,
are not susceptible of complete audit verification. Accordingly, our
verification of receipts from these sources was limited to a
comparison of recorded receipts with bank deposits.
In our opinion, except for the effect of any adjustments which
might have been required had we been able to completely verify
bequests, grants and donations, the accompanying financial
statements present fairly the financial position of the Museum as at
June 30, 1978 and the results of its operations for the year then
ended in accordance with accounting principles generally
accepted for non-profit organizations applied on a basis consistent
with that of the preceding year.
Toronto, Canada,
September 19, 1978.
Clarkson, Gordon & Co.
Chartered Accountants
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The Royal Ontario Museum
(Incorporated by Special Act of the Ontario Legislature
as a corporation without share capital)
Balance Sheet
June 30, 1978
(with comparative figures as at June 30, 1977)
1978 1977
ASSETS
Operating:
Cash $ 273,820
Short-term investments $ 850,938 618,194
Excavation, fieldwork and travel advances 44,991 20,841
Accounts receivable 75,284 96,243
Inventories 229,418 207,081
Prepaid expenses 70,348 23,718
Fixed, at nominal value—
Land and buildings 1 1
Contents 1 1
1,270,981 1,239,899
Trust:
Short-term investments 1,099,062 681,806
Marketable securities, at cost (quoted market
value: 1978-$4,089,000; 1977-$4, 138,000) 4,190,767 4,163,912
Accrued interest 86,552 107,435
5,376,381 4,953,153
$6,647,362 $6,193,052
LIABILITIES AND TRUST FUNDS
Operating:
Bank indebtedness $ 179,356
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 867,968 $ 575,242
Operating grants received in advance 173,950 348,815
General reserve 49,708 315,842
1,270,982 1,239,899
Trust funds 5,376,380 4,953,153
$6,647,362 $6,193,052
On behalf of the Board:
Sydney M. Hermant, Chairman
James E. Cruise, Trustee
(See accompanying notes)
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The Royal Ontario Museum
Statement of Financial Operations
Year ended June 30, 1978
(with comparative figures for the year ended June 30, 1977)
1978
1977
Operating
Trust
Total
Total
RECEIPTS:
Operating—
Province of Ontario grants
$7,637,360
$7,637,360
$7,036,123
Board of Education
84,700
84,700
82,106
Admission fees— Planetarium and general
413,347
413,347
245,915
— Laserium
128,667
128,667
129,481
Museology fees and grants
87,997
87,997
80,033
Service departments (net)
37,919
37,919
55,683
Other
37,592
37,592
8,380
Trust—
Bequests, grants and donations
$ 259,673
259,673
246,992
Investment income
373,780
373,780
361,081
Membership fees
112,745
112,745
107,699
Admission fees
41,066
41,066
97,607
Publications
112,809
112,809
92,876
Other
145,957
145,957
168,429
Total receipts
8,427,582
1,046,030
9,473,612
8,712,405
EXPENDITURES:
Artifacts and specimens
124,081
124,081
116,327
Building maintenance
488,597
488,597
514,299
Rent and storage
198,149
198,149
119,895
Equipment
130,743
69,963
200,706
206,742
Supplies
305,538
138,287
443,825
400,518
Excavations and fieldwork
153,825
83,234
237,059
274,333
Gallery renovations
132,471
132,471
53,439
Services
300,885
5,200
306,085
277,724
Travel
126,633
50,449
177,082
139,187
Exhibitions (net)
106,252
935
107,187
99,907
Books and periodicals
65,063
65,063
61,482
Publications
59,234
17,790
77,024
171,878
Advertising and publicity
265,980
28,726
294,706
137,299
Other
46,219
5,611
51,830
17,753
Salaries and wages
6,314,127
159,587
6,473,714
5,889,643
Total expenditures
8,693,716
683,863
9,377,579
8,480,426
Excess (deficiency) of receipts over expenditures
before the following
(266,134)
362,167
96,033
231,979
Expansion program (note 2):
Financing provided by The Ontario Universities Capital Aid
Corporation and other grants, donations and short-term
interest theron
2,666,541
2,666,541
1,179,923
Less expenditures relating to Museum expansion
2,605,481
61,060
2,605,481
61,060
962,467
217,456
Excess (deficiency) of receipts over expenditures for the year
(266,134)
423,227
157,093
449,435
General reserve and trust funds, beginning of year
315,842
4,953,153
5,268,995
4,819,560
General reserve and trust funds, end of year
$ 49,708
$5,376,380
$5,426,088
$5,268,995
(See accompanying notes)
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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
1. Summary of accounting policies
The following summary of accounting policies is set forth to
facilitate the understanding of data presented in these financial
statements:
(a) /nvenfor/es-lnventories, which consist mainly of book and gift
shop items for resale and supplies, are stated at the lower of cost
and realizable value.
(b) Fixed assets-Land and buildings and contents are carried at
nominal values of $1. Additions to fixed assets are expensed in the
year of acquisition.
2. Expansion program and related Province of Ontario
and other financing
The Royal Ontario Museum has a planned program of major
renovations to, and expansion of, its facilities, at an approved
budget cost of $44,000,000. With respect to this program, the
Board of Trustees of the Museum has approved to date con¬
struction of a curatorial centre and related projects, which are
scheduled to be completed in October, 1980 at a cost not to
exceed $25,000,000. The expected sources of funds for this phase
are as follows:
Province of Ontario $12,750,000
Wintario grants 5,920,000
National Museums Corporation 100,000
Private Sector 6,230,000
$25,000,000
The Museum has incurred expenditures totalling $4,460,383 to
June 30, 1978 (including $2,605,481 in the current year) with
respect to this program, and to June 30, 1978, has received
amounts, including related grants, donations and short-term
interest thereon, totalling $4,542,464 (including $2,666,541 in the
current year) in connection with such expenditures.
Included in such amounts received to date is $3,600,000 (of which
$1,850,000 was received in the current year) from The Ontario
Universities Capital Aid Corporation. In connection with the
receipt of these amounts, the Museum has issued debentures
payable in such amounts to The Ontario Universities Capital Aid
Corporation which are repayable over a 30-year period.
Payments of debenture principal and interest are being made on
behalf of the Museum by the Ministry of Culture and Recreation of
the Province of Ontario, under its related program of financial sup¬
port for the Museum; accordingly, the amount of the outstanding
debentures ($3,578,474 principal amount at June 30, 1978) has not
been recorded as a liability in the accounts.
3. Anti-Inflation Program
Under the provincial government's Anti-Inflation Program
(presently scheduled to be in force until December 31, 1978)
The Royal Ontario Museum is subject to mandatory compliance,
and is complying, with legislation which controls employee
compensation.
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A Bibliography of
Royal Ontario Museum
Staff Publications
July 1, 1977, to June 30, 1978
A1LODI, M.
"Canadian Faces: Some Early Portraits." Rotunda, Spring 1978,
pp. 18-25.
BACSO, J.
'The 1894 Don Valley Pressed Brick Works Catalogue." Association for
Preservation Technology. APT Bulletin 9, no. 1 (1977): 30-73.
BAKER, A.J.
"Multivariate Assessment of the Phenetic Affinities of Australasian
Oystercatchers (Aves: Charadriiformes)". Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 47,
no. 2(1977): 156-164.
— See also Baker and Coleman. "Cycle."
BAKER, A.J. and COLEMAN, J.D.
'The Breeding Cycle of the Westland Black Petrel (Procellaria west-
landica)." Notornis 24, pt. 4 (December 1977): 211-231.
BARLOCHER, F.; MacKAY, R.J.; and WIGGINS, C.B.
"Detritus Processing in a Temporary Vernal Pool in Southern Ontario."
Archiv fur Hydrobiologie 81, no. 3 (January 1978): 269-295.
BARLOW, J.C.
See Dick and Barlow. "L'Hirondelle."
BARR, D.
'Tell me. . .What Good is a Mosquito Anyway?" Ontario Naturalist,
Spring 1978, pp. 4-7.
— See also Barr and Mulock. Insects.
— See also Smith and Barr. "Swimming."
BARR, D. and MULOCK, J.
Insects. Edu-Colour Book 702. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum,
1977. 18p.
BAYLEY, W.H.
(Review of) A Social History of Museums, by K. Hudson. Canadian
Museums Association. Gazette, Summer 1977, pp. 49-50.
BLOCK-BOLTEN, I.
"Restoration of a Hooked Rug." Canadian Collector, September/October
1977, pp. 48-49.
— See also Block-Bolten and Day. "Mantle."
BLOCK-BOLTEN, I. and DAY, K.C.
"A Third Paracas Mantle at the Royal Ontario Museum." Royal Ontario
Museum. Archaeological Newsletter, April 1977. 4p.
BRETT, K.B
"Some Eighteenth-Century French Woodblock Printed Cottons in the
Royal Ontario Museum." In Studies in Textile History, edited by
V. Gervers, op. cit., pp. 18-30.
BRYAN, B.M. and MELTZER, E.S.
"A Note on an Obscure Title, t3y tnfyt pd(t) n nb t3wy." Society for the
Study of Egyptian Antiquities. SSEA journal 8, no. 2
(February 1978): 60-65.
BURNHAM, D.K.
"Constructions Used by Jacquard Coverlet Weavers in Ontario." In
Studies in Textile History, edited by V. Gervers, op. cit., pp. 31-42.
CAMPSIE, J.S.
"Focus: On a Meeting Place." Rotunda, Spring 1978, pp. 2-3.
CARSON, R.
"Body Wall Morphology of Pentapora foliacea (Ellis and Solander)
(Bryozoa, Cheilostomata)." lournal of Morphology 156, no. 1
(April 1978): 39-52.
— "Similar Characters: Why do Some Animals Look Like Plants." Rotunda,
Spring 1978, pp. 32-37.
CATLING, P.M.; REZNICEK, A. A.; and RILEY, J.L.
"Some New and Interesting Grass Records from Southern Ontario."
Canadian Field-Naturalist 91, no. 4 (October-December 1977): 350-359.
CHUA, K.E.
See Chua, Crossman, and Gilmour. "Isozymes."
— See also Wood and Chua. "Method."
CHUA, K.E.; CROSSMAN, E.J.; and GILMOUR, C.A.
"Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) Isozymes in Muscle of Freshwater Fish by
Isoelectric Focusing in Thin-Layer Polyacrylamide Gel." Science Tools 25,
no. 1 (1978): 2511-2513.
CHURCHER, C.S.
See Churcher and Karrow. "Muskox."
— See also Wilson and Churcher. "Camelops."
CHURCHER, C.S. and KARROW, P.F.
"Late Pleistocene Muskox (Ovibos) from the Early Wisconsin at Scar¬
borough Bluffs, Ontario, Canada." Canadian journal of Earth Sciences
14, no. 2 (February 1977): 326-331.
CROSSMAN, E.J.
See Crossman and Goodchild. Bibliography.
— See also Crossman and Meade. "Hybrids."
— See also Crossman and Minor. "Studies."
— See also Chua, Crossman, and Gilmour. "Isozymes."
CROSSMAN, E.J. and GOODCHILD, C.D.
An Annotated Bibliography of the Muskellunge, Esox masquinongy
(Osteichthyes: Salmoniformes). Life Sciences Miscellaneous Publications.
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1978. 1 31 p.
CROSSMAN, E.J. and MEADE, J.W.
"Artificial Hybrids Between Amur Pike, Essox reicherti, and North
American Esocids." journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
34, no. 12 (December 1977): 2338-2343.
CROSSMAN, E.J. and MINOR, J.D.
'Tracking Studies of the Muskellunge in Shallow Heavily Vegetated
Water." Underwater Telemetry Newsletter, December 1977, pp. 4-5.
CSELENYI, L.
"The R.S. Williams Collection of Musical Instruments." Ontario Museums
Association. Newsletter, Summer 1977, pp. 16-21.
DAY, K.C.
See Block-Bolten and Day. "Mantle."
DICK, J.A.
See Dick and Barlow. "L'Hirondelle."
DICK, J.A. and BARLOW, J.C.
"L'Hirondelle a Cuisse Blanche en Guyane Frangaise." L'Oiseau et la
Revue Frangaise d'Ornithologie 47, no. 3 (1977): 303.
DOHRENWEND, D.
"Chinese Glass." In A Gather of Class, edited by P. Kaellgren, op. cit.,
pp. 10-13.
— (Review of) The Cradle of the East, by Ping-ti Ho. Archaeology 30, no. 5
(September 1977): 354.
EMERY, A.R.
'The Basis of Fish Community Structure: Marine and Freshwater
Comparisons." Environmental Biology of Fishes 3, no. 1 (March 1978):
33-47.
— See also Emery and Emery. Careers.
— See also Emery and Teleki. "Flounder."
— See also Maclnnis and Emery. "Sublimnos."
EMERY, A.R. and EMERY, F.H.
Marine Science Careers. Information Leaflet. Toronto: Royal Ontario
Museum, Dept, of Ichthyology and Herpetology, 1978. 16p.
EMERY. A.R. and TELEKI, C.
"European Flounder (Platichthys flesus) Captured in Lake Erie, Ontario."
Canadian Field-Naturalist 92, no. 1 (January-March 1978): 89-91.
FENTON, M.B.
"Variation in the Social Calls of Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugusj."
Canadian journal of Zoology 55, no. 7 (July 1977): 1151-1157.
— See also Fenton, Cumming, and Oxley. "Prey."
— See also Fullard and Fenton. "Analyses."
— See also Martin and Fenton. "Function."
39
FENTON, M.B.; CUMMING, D.H.M.; and OXLEY, D.J.
"Prey of Bat Hawks and Availability of Bats." Condor 79, no. 4
(Winter 1977): 495-497.
FULLARD, J.H. and FENTON, M B,
"Acoustic and Behavioural Analyses of the Sounds Produced by Some
Species of Nearctic Arctiidae (Lepidoptera). Canadian Journal of Zoology
55, no. 8 (August 1977): 1213-1224.
GAIT, R.l.
"Personality Sketch, J.A. Mandarino." Mineralogical Record 9, no. 2
(March-April 1978): 120-121.
GERVERS, V.
"An Early Christian Curtain in the Royal Ontario Museum." In Studies in
Textile History, edited by V. Cervers, op. cit., pp. 56-81.
— "Felt in Eurasia." In Yoruk: The Nomadic Weaving Tradition of the
Middle East, edited by A.N. Landreau, pp. 16-22 (accompanying plates,
pp. 65-71, 127-128). Pittsburgh: Museum of Art,
Carnegie Institute, 1978.
— 'The Folk Traditions of Rural Hungary: A Photographic Record."
Canadian-American Review of Hungarian Studies 4, no. 1
(Spring 1977): 66-76.
— See also Cervers, ed. Studies.
— See also Gervers and Cervers. "Centre."
— See also Colombek and Gervers. "Fabrics."
GERVERS, V., ed.
Studies in Textile History. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1977. 371p.
CERVERS, V. and CERVERS, M.
"An Ancient Trading Centre: Istanbul and Its Bazaars." Rotunda,
Spring 1978, pp. 38-47.
COLOMBEK, L.
"Collecting Architectural Antiques in Isfahan." Royal Ontario Museum.
Archaeological Newsletter, September 1977. 4p.
— "Mazar-i Sharif-A Case of Mistaken Identity?" In Studies in Memory of
Gaston Wiet, edited by M. Rosen-Ayalon, pp. 335-343. jerusalem:
Institute of Asian and African Studies, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, 1977.
— (Review of) Muslim Religious Architecture: Part I. The Mosque and its
Early Development, by D. Kuban, lournal of the American Oriental
Society 97, no. 4 (1977): 606-607.
— See also Golombek and Cervers. "Fabrics."
GOLOMBEK, L. and GERVERS, V.
"Tiraz Fabrics in the Royal Ontario Museum." In Studies in Textile
History, edited by V. Cervers, op. cit., pp. 82-125.
GOODCHILD, C.D.
See Crossman and Coodchild. Bibliography.
HAYES, J.W.
"Some Etruscan Textile Remains in the Royal Ontario Museum." In
Studies in Textile History, edited by V. Gervers, op. cit., pp. 144-148.
— (Review of) Lucerne del Museo di Sabratha, by E. Joly. lournal of Roman
Studies 67 (1977): 217-218.
HECKEN, D.
"Museums and Fine Arts Insurance." Ontario Museums Association.
Newsletter, Winter 1978, pp. 35-42.
HICKL-SZABO, H.
"Portrait Miniatures: Amassing a Collection." Rotunda,
Spring 1978, pp. 12-17.
HILL, M.H.
"A Tale of Two Sites: Excavations in the Gambia, 1977." Royal Ontario
Museum. Archaeological Newsletter, February, 1978. 4p.
HINKEL, F.W.
The Archaeological Map of the Sudan: A Guide to its Use and Explana¬
tion of its Principles. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1977. Written in
cooperation with A.J. Mills.
HSU, CHIN-HSIUNG
The Menzies Collection of Shang Dynasty Oracle Bones, Vol. 2, the
Text. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, in cooperation with the Chinese
Universtiy of Hong Kong, 1977. 250p.
JAMBOR, J.L.; SABINA, A.P.; and STURMAN, B.D.
"Hydrodresserite, a New Ba-Al Carbonate from a Silicocarbonatite Sill,
Montreal Island, Quebec." Canadian Mineralogist 15, pt. 3
(August 1977): 399-404.
- "Strontiodresserite, a New Sr-AI Carbonate from Montreal Island,
Quebec." Canadian Mineralogist 15, pt. 3 (August 1977): 405-407.
JAMES, R.D.
"First Nesting of the Great Gray Owl in Ontario." Ontario Field Biologist
31, no. 2 (December, 1977): 55.
— "Pairing and Nest Site Selection in Solitary and Yellow-throated Vireos
With a Description of a Ritualized Nest Building Display." Canadian
lournal of Zoology 56, no. 5 (May 1978): 1163-1169.
— "A Photorecord File for Ontario Birds." Ontario Field Biologist 31, no. 1
(June 1977): 17-21.
JAMIESON, A.
Ancient Egypt: Gift of the Nile: Teachers' Resource Booklet. Toronto:
Royal Ontario Museum, 1977. 33p.
— See also Jenkins, Jamieson, and Miles. Museum.
JENC, R.S. and KRUG, J.C.
"New Record and New Species of Coprophilous Pezizales from
Argentina and Venezuela." Canadian lournal of Botany 55, no. 24
(December 15, 1977): 2987-3000.
JENKINS, M.
See Jenkins, Jamieson, and Miles. Museum.
JENKINS, M.; JAMIESON, A.; and MILES, R.
Introducing the Museum: Teacher's Resource Booklet. Toronto:
Royal Ontario Museum, 1978. 28p.
JOHNSTON, B.H.
The Ceremony of Peace Pipe Smoking." TAWOW 6,
no. 1 (1978): 21-23.
- "Hah-Mah-Tsa." TAWOW 6, no. 1 (1978): 8-12.
— "History of the Ojibway People." TAWOW 6, no. 1 (1978): 5-7.
- 'The Path of Souls-The Milky Way." TAWOW 6, no. 1 (1978): 28-32.
- The Vision." TAWOW 6, no. 1 (1978): 14-15.
- See also Skye and Johnston. "Festival."
KAELLCREN, P.
The Constancy of Glass." Canadian Collector, July/August 1977,
pp. 24-27.
- The Timeless Elegance of Lalique Glass." Rotunda, Fall 1977,
pp. 14-19.
- See also Kaellgren, ed. Glass.
KAELLCREN, P„ ed.
A Gather of Glass. Toronto:
Royal Ontario Museum, 1977. 32p.
KEALL, E.J.
"Political, Economic, and Social Factors on the Parthian Landscape of
Mesopotamia and Western Iran: Evidence from Two Case Studies." In
Mountains and Lowlands, edited by L.D. Levine and T.C. Young,
Jr., op. cit., pp. 81-89.
— "Qaleeh-e Yazdgerd: First Season of Excavations, 1975." In Proceedings
of the IVth Annual Symposium on Archaeological Research in Iran,
edited by F. Bagherzadeh, pp. 380-390. Tehran: Iranian Centre for
Archaeological Research, 1976.
— "Qal'eh-i Yazdigird: The Question of its Date." Iran
15 (1977): 1-9.
KEEBLE, K.C.
"Focus: On the Three Graces." Rotunda, Winter 1977/78, pp. 2-3.
— (Review of) The Liners, by T. Coleman and A Night to Remember,
by W. Lord. Ontario Museum Association. Newsletter,
Summer 1977, pp. 38-41.
KENYON, W.A.
"Some Bones of Contention." Rotunda, Fall 1977, pp. 4-13.
KRUG, J.C.
"Kabatia valpellinesis Reported from Switzerland." Sydowia, Annales
Mycologici, Series II 29 (1976/77): 275-277.
— See also Krug and Jeng. "Camptosphaeria."
- See also Jeng and Krug. "Record."
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KRUG, J.C. and JENC, R.S.
'The Genus Camptosphaeria." Sydowia, Annales Mycologici, Series II 29
(1976/77): 71-74.
LEIPEN, N.
"Classical Tradition in Early Christian Art: A Textile Fragment in the
Royal Ontario Museum." In Studies in Textile History, edited by
V. Gervers, op. cit., pp. 168-177.
— "A Roman Portrait in the Royal Ontario Museum." American journal of
Archaeology 82, no. 1 (Winter 1978): 109-114.
LEVINE, L.D.
"East-West Trade in the Iron Age: A View from the Zagros." Colloques
Internationaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
no. 567 (1978): 172-186.
— "Notes on Felt-Making and the Production of Other Textiles at Seh Cabi,
a Kurdish Village." In Studies in Textile History, edited by V. Gervers, op.
cit., pp. 202-213.
— "Sargon's Eighth Campaign." In Mountains and Lowlands, edited by
L.D. Levine and T.C. Young, Jr., op. cit., pp. 135-151.
— "Survey in the Province of Kermansahan, 1975: Mahidast in the
Prehistoric and Early Historic Periods." In Proceedings of the IVth Annual
Symposium on Archaeological Research in Iran,
edited by F. Bagherzadeh, pp. 284-297. Tehran: Iranian Centre for
Archaeological Research, 1976.
— See also Levine and McDonald. "Periods."
— See also Levine and Young, eds. Mountains.
LEVINE, L.D. and MCDONALD, M.M.A.
"The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods in the Mahidasht."
Iran 15(1977): 39-50.
LEVINE, L.D. and YOUNG, T.C., JR., eds.
Mountains and Lowlands: Essays in the Archaeology of Greater
Mesopotamia. Bibliotheca Mesopotamica, vol. 7. Malibu: Undena
Publications, 1977. 393p.
LOVISEK, J.
'To Catch a Caiman." Rotunda, Fall 1977, pp. 20-25.
LUDVICSEN, R.
The Trilobites Bathyurus and Eomonorachus from the Middle
Ordovician of Oklahoma and Their Biofacies Significance. Life Sciences
Contributions, no. 114. Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, 1978. 18p.
LUMBERS, S.B.
"Pembroke and Renfrew Areas, District of Nipissing and Counties of
Renfrew, Frontenac, Lanark, Lennox and Addington." In Summary of
Field Work, 1977, by the Geological Branch, edited by V.C. Milne et al.,
pp. 126-129. Division of Mines Miscellaneous Paper 75. Toronto:
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, 1977.
McANDREWS, J.H.
See McAndrews and Samson. "Analyse."
McANDREWS, J.H. and SAMSON, G.
"Analyse Pollinique et Implications Arch£ologiques et G£omorpho-
logiques, Lac de la Hutte Sauvage (Mushuau Nipi), Nouveau-Qu6bec."
G£ographie Physique et Quaternaire 31, nos. 1-2 (1977): 177-183.
McCOWAN, C.
"An Isolated Ichthyosaur Coracoid from the Maastrichtian of New Jersey."
Canadian journal of Earth Sciences 15, no. 1 (January 1978): 169-171.
— "On the Track of the Moa." Rotunda, Winter 1977/78, pp. 22-29.
MacINNIS, J.B. and EMERY, A.R.
"Underwater Research in Sublimnos." In National Geographic Society
Research Reports 1969, edited by P.H. Oehser and J.S. Lea,
pp. 405-410. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1978.
MacKAY, R.J.
See Barlocher, Mackay, and Wiggins. "Processing."
MADELEY, R.
Guide to the Dinosaur Gallery for Teachers and Parents. Toronto:
Royal Ontario Museum, 1977. 16p.
MANDARINO, J.A.
'The Gladstone-Dale Relationship. Part II. Trends Among Constants."
Canadian Mineralogist 16, pt. 2 (May 1978): 169-174.
— See also Mandarino and Sturman. "Identity."
— See also Mandarino, Sturman, and Corlett. "Penikisite."
— See also Sturman, Mandarino, and Corlett. "Maricite."
MANDARINO, J.A. and STURMAN, B.D.
'The Identity of 0£-Catapleiite and Gaidonnayite." Canadian
Mineralogist 16, pt. 2 (May 1978): 195-198.
MANDARINO, J.A.; STURMAN, B.D.; and CORLETT, M.l.
"Penikisite, the Magnesium Analogue of Kulanite, from Yukon Territory."
Canadian Mineralogist 15, pt. 3 (August 1977): 393-395.
MARTIN, K.A. and FENTON, M.B.
"A Possible Defensive Function for Calls Given by Bats Myotis lucifugus
Arousing from Torpor." Canadian journal of Zoology 56, no. 6,
(June 1978): 1430-1432.
MELTZER, E.S.
See Bryan and Meltzer. "Note."
MILES, R.
See Jenkins, Jamieson, and Miles. Museum.
MILLET, N.B.
"Autopsy of an Egyptian Mummy (Nakht-ROM 1) 1: Archeologic
Background." Canadian Medical Association journal 117, no. 5
(September 3, 1977): 3.
MILLS, A.J.
See Hinkel. Map.
MULOCK, J.
See Barr and Mulock. Insects.
MUSSELWHITE, B.
"'Death of Wolfe' on English Sugar Bowl." Canadian Collector,
March/April 1978, p. 45.
NEEDLER, W.
'Three Pieces of Unpatterned Linen from Ancient Egypt in the Royal
Ontario Museum." In Studies in Textile History, edited by V. Gervers,
op. cit., pp. 238-251.
NEWLANDS, D.L.
"A Catalogue of Spring Moulds from Two Huron County, Ontario,
Earthenware Potteries." In Material History Bulletin, no. 3, pp. 15-30.
Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1977.
— "Clay Tobacco Pipes from Fort York." Royal Ontario Museum.
Archaeological Newsletter, April 1978, 4p.
— 'The Hamilton Pottery." Canadian Collector,
March/April 1978, pp. 29-34.
— 'The New Hamburg Pottery." Canadian Collector,
July/August 1977, pp. 36-39.
— 'The Potteries of Waterloo County, Ontario: 2." Ontario Potter,
Fall/Winter 1977, pp. 2-5.
— 'The Potteries of Waterloo County, Ontario: 3." Ontario Potter,
Spring/Summer 1978, pp. 2-5.
— "Rare and Unusual Ontario Pottery." Canadian Collector,
November/December 1977, pp. 25-29.
— "Scragg's Tile Machine." York Pioneer, Fall 1977, pp. 31-34.
ODUM, A.
"Insects for the Table." Ontario Naturalist, Spring 1978, pp. 8-13.
PENDERGAST, D.M.
"Lamanai 1977, Episode Two." Royal Ontario Museum. Archaeological
Newsletter, December 1977. 4p.
— "Lamanai 1978: Un Ballo in Maschera." Royal Ontario Museum.
Archaeological Newsletter, May 1978. 4p.
PROCTOR, P.
(Translation of) 'Technical Studies on Lung-ch'uan Celadons of
Successive Dynasties," by Chou Jen, Chang Fu-k'ang and Cheng Yung-fu.
Victoria and Albert Museum in cooperation with the Oriental
Cermamic Society. Chinese Translations, No. 7. London: Oriental
Ceramic Society, 1977. 61 p.
PRYOR, F.M.M.
"Of Live Rabbits, Weeping Willows and Vanishing Houses: A Normal
Season at Fengate." Royal Ontario Museum. Archaeological Newsletter,
September 1977. 4p.
— "Sites Within Sites: The Last Three Seasons at Fengate." Rotunda,
Spring 1978, pp. 5-11.
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REDFORD, D.B.
"Son of Sun-Disc." Royal Ontario Museum. Archaeological Newsletter,
March 1978. 4p.
RILEY, J.L.
Guide to the Vascular Plants and Wildlife of the Rouge River Valley.
Special Publication, no. 1. Toronto: Ontario Field Biologist, 1978. 53p.
— See also Catling, Reznicek and Riley. "Records."
ROGERS, E.S.
"Indians and Anthropologists." Rotunda, Winter 1977/78, pp. 34-39.
— (Review of) The Northern Ojibwa and the Fur Trade, by C.A. Bishop.
American Anthropologist 79, no. 3 (September 1977): 670-671.
— (Review of) Edward 5. Curtis, by F. Craybill and V. Boesen. Beaver,
Summer 1977, pp. 59-60.
SATTERLY, J.
A Catalogue of the Ontario Localities Represented by the Mineral
Collection of the Royal Ontario Museum. Ontario Geological Survey
Miscellaneous Paper 70. Toronto: Ontario Ministry of Natural
Resources, 1977. 464p.
SAVAGE, H.
"Faunal Findings in Archaeological Sites." Royal Ontario Museum.
Archaeological Newsletter, July 1977. 4p.
— "In Search of Arctic Fauna:" Arch Notes,
August/September 1977, pp. 36-38.
— See also Scott et al. "Autopsy."
SCHEFFEL, M.L.
"Treasure in the Rocks." Rotunda, Winter 1977/78, pp. 40-47.
SCOTT, J.W.; HORNE, P.D.; HART, G.D.; SAVAGE, H.
"Autopsy of an Egyptian Mummy (Nakht-ROM 1) 3: Gross Anatomic and
Miscellaneous Studies." Canadian Medical Association lournal 117, no. 5
(September 3, 1977): 5-6.
SHAW, J.W.
"Buildings in the Sand." Royal Ontario Museum. Archaeological
Newsletter, August 1977, 4p.
— "Excavations at Kommos (Crete) During 1976." Hesperia 46, no. 3
(July-September 1977): 199-240.
SHEPHERD, B.
"Focus: Mankind Discovering." Rotunda, Fall 1977, pp. 2-3.
SKYE, J. and JOHNSTON, B.H.
"The Maple Sugar Festival." TAWOW 6, no. 1 (1978): 16-20.
SMITH, B.P. and BARR. D.
"Swimming by the Water Mite Limnochares americana Lundblad (Acari,
Parasitengona, Limnocharidae)." Canadian lournal of Zoology 55, no. 12
(December 1977): 2050-2059.
STURMAN, B.D.
See Sturman, Mandarino, and Corlett. "Maricite."
— See also Jambor, Sabina, and Sturman. "Hydrodresserite."
— See also Jambor, Sabina, and Sturman. "Strontiodresserite."
— See also Mandarino and Sturman. "Identity."
— See also Mandarino, Sturman, and Corlett. "Penikisite."
STURMAN, B.D.; MANDARINO, J.A.; and CORLETT, M.l.
"Maricite, a Sodium Iron Phosphate, from the Big Fish River Area, Yukon
Territory, Canada." Canadian Mineralogist 15, pt. 3
(August 1977): 396-398.
TOVELL, W.M.
"Not Ours to Control." Rotunda, Fall 1977, pp. 26-32.
TUSHINCHAM, A.D.
"The More Things Change." Royal Ontario Museum. Archaeological
Newsletter, January 1978. 4p.
VOLLMER, J.E.
"Archaeological and Ethnological Considerations of the Foot-Braced
Body-Tension Loom." In Studies in Textile History, edited by V. Gervers,
op. cit., pp. 343-354.
— "La Toile de Jouy." Rotunda, Fall 1977, pp. 38-41.
VON BITTER, P.H.
"Charles Jackson, M.D. (1805-1880) and Francis Alger (1807-1863) —
Further Information on Their Charges of Plagiarism Against Abraham
Gesner (1797-1864)." Geoscience Canada 5, no. 2 (June 1978): 79-82.
— "Fossils in the Mail." Rotunda, Winter 1977/78, pp. 4-11.
WEBSTER, D.B.
"Colonial Elegance." Rotunda, Winter 1977/78, pp. 12-21.
WICKS, F.J.
See Wicks and Whittaker. "Textures."
— See also Wicks, Whittaker, and Zussman. "Model."
WICKS, F.J. and WHITTAKER, E.J.W.
"Serpentine Textures and Serpentinization." Canadian Mineralogist 15,
pt. 4 (November 1977): 459-488.
WICKS, F.J.; WHITTAKER, E.J.W.; and ZUSSMAN, J.
"An Idealized Model for Serpentine Texture After Olivine." Canadian
Mineralogist 15, pt. 4 (November 1977): 446-458.
WIGGINS, G.B.
"Trichoptera." In An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North
America, edited by R.W. Merritt and K.W. Cummins, pp. 147-185.
Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt, 1978.
— See also Barlocher, Mackay, and Wiggins. "Processing."
WILBURN, C.
(Review of) Language as a Way of Knowing, edited by M. Nystrand. Cur¬
riculum Inquiry 7, no. 3 (Fall 1977): 267-268.
WILLSON, N.
"The Discovery Room at the R.O.M." Ontario Museums Association.
Newsletter Autumn 1977, pp. 9-14.
WILSON, M.
Middle Eocene Freshwater Fishes from British Columbia. Life Sciences
Contributions, no. 133. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1977. 61p.
— See also Wilson and Churcher. "Came/ops."
WILSON, M. and CHURCHER, C.S.
"Late Pleistocene Camelops from the Gallelli Pit, Calgary, Alberta:
Morphology and Geologic Setting." Canadian lournal of Earth Sciences
15, no. 5 (May 1978): 729-740.
WOOD, L.W. and CHUA, K.E.
"Method for Studying Amino Acid Flux at the Mud-Water Interface."
lournal of Great Lakes Research 3, nos. 1-2 (October 1977): 29-37.
YOUNG, T.C., JR.
"Population Dynamics and Philosophical Dichotomies." In Mountains
and Lowlands, edited by L.D. Levine and T.C. Young, Jr.,
op. cit., pp. 387-398.
— (Review of) L'lran et la Migration de s Indo-Aryens et des Iraniens, by
R. Ghirsham. Afghanistan Council. Newsletter, Fall 1977, pp. 19-22.
— See also Levine and Young, eds. Mountains.
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Calendar of Events
July 1, 1977 to June 30, 1978
Major Temporary Exhibitions
1977
to August 14. In the Presence of the Dragon Throne. Chinese costume of
the Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911)
October 7 to December 31. A Gather of Glass.
1978
June 1 to July 31. Austria Presents Hundertwasser to the Continents.
Other Temporary Exhibitions
1977
July to November. Contemporary Czechoslovakian Art Glass.
to July 10. Faces of Old China. Early 20th-century photographs from the
Far Eastern collections.
to July 10. In the Presence of the Past. Portraits of dignitaries from the Far
Eastern collections.
July 4 to August 14. Stamps and Covers of Hanover.
July 8 to August 21. Mars. A photographic exhibit focusing on man's view
of the red planet from early mythology to close-ups of the actual surface.
July 12 to August 31. Window on the Discovery Room. Photographs and
artifacts reflecting the development and spirit of the ROM's
Discovery Room.
July 15 to September 25. Naskapi 77. Traditional crafts of the Naskapi
Band of the Matimekosh Reserve, Schefferville, Quebec.
July 18 to December 31. Fashion of the Crowning Years. Clothing
fashionable during the coronation periods of the British House of
Hanover/Windsor (1714-1953).
to August. Godin Tepe, Iran.
August 5 to January 6. Canadian Hooked Rugs.
August 15 to October 2. Palaeophilately: The Study of Fossil Stamps,
to August 31. East Asian Costume Technology.
to August 31. The Dragon in the East. Fact, fiction, and forms of the
mythical beast from the Bronze Age in China to the last of the
Ch'ing Dynasty.
September to November. Giant Fossil Bones.
September to January. Minerals of Tsumeb, Southwest Africa,
to September. Insects.
to September 7. Carpets from Tunisia. Gifts of Dr. Michael Pflug.
September 9 to October 24. French 18th-Century Printed Textiles. A
display of 22 printed textiles from the ROM's collection which had been
on loan to the French village of Jouy-en-Josas from where they originated.
September 10 to October 30. The Diversity of Fossil Life. Specimens and
photographs of fossils from land and sea.
October to December. Glass Paperweights,
to October. Abracadabra: West Asian Metaphysics.
October 3 to November 13. The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Exhibit.
October 8 to January 31. Textiles from North Africa and the Middle East.
October 17 to January 15. Quillwork. Quill embroidery by the Native
peoples of Canada, 1800-1977.
November to January. Native Pottery from the American Southwest.
November 5 to December 4. Between the Covers of Cricket Magazine.
Sixty of the best illustrations from the noted children's magazine.
Circulated by Van Arsdale Associates.
November 5 to December 11. Locks from Iran. Circulated by the
Smithsonian Institution.
November 14 to December 31 The Madonna in Stamps.
December to March. Fashionable Jewellery.
December to March. Fossils.
December to March. Lamanai, Belize.
December 13 to January 23. Retrospective Space Art by ZIGI. Twenty
paintings by Zigi Kucharski.
1978
January to June. Teapots.
to January. Medieval Textiles from the Mediterranean World.
January 9 to February 19. A Study of Necrology in Stamps.
to January 19. The Arts of MeroS. Artifacts from the 1909 archaeological
exploration of this site in the Sudan.
January 23 to February 22. Contemporary Native Art of Canada—
Alexander Janvier.
January 27 to September 10. Costume from the World of Islam.
February to April. Ant-eating Mammals.
February 1 to March 6. Arctic Journey. Wildlife paintings by ROM artist
Peter Buerschaper.
February 7 to March 23. The Celtic Heritage.
February 14 to August 31. Chinese Embroidery.
February 14 to August 31. The Embroiderers' Art.
February 15 to May 15. Chinese Fan Paintings from the Collection of
Mr. Chan Yee Pong.
March to April. The Royal Navy and Indian Farmers:
The Pollen Connection.
March to May. Iranian Ceramics.
March to May. Seashells.
March 1 to July 3 A Missionary and His Wife Among the Inuit. Paintings of
Eskimo Point by Winifred Marsh, photographs by her husband, Donald
Marsh, and artifacts of the region.
March 11 to 25 Saturday Morning Club Children's Art. Projects by the
ROM's Saturday Morning Club.
March 30 to April 16. Art Students' Finest Work. Produced by art classes at
the ROM.
April to July. Conservation at the ROM.
April to July. Uses of Radiography in Conservation.
April 11 to August 31. Ghubayra. The story of a Persian town in Marco
Polo's time.
April 22 to May 21. Know What You See. Conservation and restoration of
paintings. Circulated by the Smithsonian Institution.
May to August. Seed Beads.
May 6 to June 6. Harbingers of Spring. Twenty species of
living amphibians.
June. Explore Your Heritage. An exhibit of the winning entries in the
contest sponsored by National Museums of Canada.
June to August. Salute to Metro International Caravan.
Temporary Exhibitions: Canadiana Building
1977
to September 18. Two Gentlewomen of Upper Canada. Watercolours and
drawings by Anne Langton and Agnes Moodie Fitzgibbon.
September 23 to December 4. The War of 1812. A pictorial history of the
last international war to be fought on Canadian soil.
December 5 to February 26. Antique Toys of Canada.
1978
April 7 to September 10. Early Canadian Faces. Canadian painters and
their subjects from 1780 to 1870.
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McLaughlin Planetarium Shows
1977
to September 18. New Worlds.
September 22 to November 27. Astrology: The Wheel of Fortunes.
December 1 to January 2. The Christmas Star.
1978
January 17 to March 12. Astrology: The Wheel of Fortunes.
March 17 to July 18. Distances and Dreams.
Throughout 1977-78, the cosmic laser concerts, Laserium I and II, and
from October 25, Laserock, were shown.
Lectures
1977
ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY SERIES: Discovering Through Glass
October 18. Dr. Marshall McLuhan, On Perception.
October 25. Ms. Catherine Thuro, On Lighting Fixtures.
October 27. Mr. Robert Charleston, 17th- and 18th-Century English Glass.
November 1. Dr. Robert Brill, The Chemistry of Glass.
November 8. Dr. John Hayes, Greek and Roman Glass.
November 15. Mrs. Bette Shepherd, Canadian Glass for the Collector.
November 22. Mr. Robert Watt, Canadian Stained Glass.
1978
SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES: A World in a Grain of Sand
March 9. Dr. Chris McGowan, On a Bone.
March 16. Dr. Peter von Bitter, On a Rock.
March 23. Dr. Robert Gait, On Quartz.
March 30. Mrs. Renate Carson, On a Drop of Water.
April 6. Dr. Ross James, On a Feather.
April 13. Dr. Glen Wiggins, On a Cockroach.
CLASSICS SERIES
March 15. Professor Mario Del Chiaro, Ghiaccio Forte, An Ancient
Etruscan Archaeological Site near Grosseto.
March 22. Professor Alexander McKay, The Emperor Nero and the
Bay of Naples.
SPECIAL LECTURE
1977
December 7. Dr. David Pendergast, The Maya World: A View from Belize.
SUBSCRIPTION LECTURE SERIES
1977
Bishop White Fall Lecture Series: The Far Eastern Imprint. A series of four
lectures from October 18 to November 22.
1978
Textile Endowment Fund Lecture Series. The Gentle Domestic Arts. A
series of five lectures from January 16 to February 13.
Bishop White Spring Lecture Series. A series of five lectures by the staff of
the Far Eastern Department from April 4 to May 2.
Bishop White Committee. Dim Sum Luncheon and Gallery Talk.
January 26 and February 2.
Extension Courses
1977
October 17 to December 12. Introducing Astronomy. Mr. Norman Green,
Assistant Curator, McLaughlin Planetarium.
Extension Courses Given in Cooperation
with the School of Continuing Studies,
University of Toronto
1977
October 11 to December 13. Exploration of the Universe. Dr. Henry King,
Curator, McLaughlin Planetarium.
October 11 to December 13. The Autumn of the Middle Ages.
Mr. K. Corey Keeble, Assistant Curator, European Department.
1978
January 31 to April 4. The Images of Man. Mr. K. Corey Keeble, Assistant
Curator, European Department.
February 7 to April 11. Time. Dr. Henry King, Curator,
McLaughlin Planetarium.
Concerts
1977
GARDEN CONCERT SERIES: Canadian Folk
July 7. The Toronto Consort.
July 14. Jean Carignan.
July 21. Graham Townsend.
July 28. Maple Sugar.
August 4. John Allen Cameron.
August 11. Klaas van Graft, Sharon Hampson, and the Travellers.
August 18. String Band.
August 25. Alanis Obomsawin.
JAZZ SERIES
October 25. Sam Noto Quartet.
November 1. The Herbie Koffman Quintet.
November 8. The Bruce Cassidy Quintet.
November 15. The Kathryn Moses Quartet.
November 22. The Gary Morgan Sextet.
CONCERTS OF COLONIAL CANADA, Canadiana Building
February 5. Isidor Desser String Quartet.
February 12. Toronto Gabrieli Brass.
February 19. The Renaissance Singers.
February 26. Carrol Anne Curry, Guillermo Silva-Marin, Stuart Hamilton.
MISCELLANEOUS CONCERTS
1977
November 20. Moe Koffman Quintet gave a live performance of the music
included in the album Museum Pieces inspired by the galleries in the
Royal Ontario Museum.
December 13. The Renaissance Singers performed early Christian music as
part of the "Festival of Song and Light".
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Special Programmes to Mark Guitar Week '78
CONCERTS
June 20. Gordon O'Brien.
June 21. Richard Stover.
June 22. The Peabody Quartet.
June 23. Alice Artzt.
WORKSHOPS
June 20. Miles Dempster. On the Renaissance Lute.
June 21. Aaron Skitri. On the Music of the Baroque.
June 22. David Rubio and Darryl Williams. On Guitar-Making.
FILMS
June 18, 21, and 24. Films on the great classical guitarists of the day.
Film Programmes
CHILDREN'S FILMS
December 26 to 31. A special Christmas series for children. March 23.
Films about dinosaurs.
SENIOR CITIZENS
Tuesdays throughout the year. Special film programmes were offered as
part of the senior citizens' day programme.
SUNDAY EVENING FILMS
October 9 to November 13. Films on Glass.
November 20 to December 11. Films on Photography.
January 8 to March 19. People of Vision. A series of films on the men and
women whose vision created the ideas, art forms, and lifestyles that still
inspire us.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays in June. Hundertwasser's Rainy Day.
Special Events
July 5 to August 7. Programmes to complement the exhibition, In the
Presence of the Dragon Throne.
September 8. Opening of exhibition French 18th-Century Printed Textiles.
September 16. Opening of Student Entrance. Bobby Gimby.
September 21. Luncheon for the King and Queen of the Belgians given by
the Premier of Ontario, followed by tour of Far Eastern Galleries.
September 27. Kettledrum reception to open the exhibition
The War of 1812.
September 29. Performance of the medieval play The Harrowing of Hell to
announce the beginning of the York Cycle Mystery Plays.
October 6. Members' opening of the exhibition A Gather of Glass.
October 11. Education Day for grade 12 students. Lecture by Colonel C.P.
Stacey on the War of 1812, followed by tour of the exhibition.
October 16. Glass Identification.
October 17. Opening of the exhibition Quillwork.
October 20. Press reception to release the album Museum Pieces.
October 26. Teachers' Night.
November 3. Behind-the-scenes tours for the North East Conference of the
Ontario Museum Association.
November 5. Fashion Ball sponsored by the Fashion Group of Toronto.
November 6. Programmes to complement the exhibition
A Gather of Glass.
November 9. Education day for grade 12 students. Lecture by
Commander Douglas on the battles of the War of 1812, followed by tour
of the exhibition.
November 13. Demonstration of quillwork.
November 21. New members' opening.
November 24. Glass Seminar. Ontario Museum Association.
December 13. Festival of Song and Light. Lighting of the Christmas Tree,
Earl Grey Choir, Settlement Dancers, Renaissance Singers.
December 13. Christmas party for New Canadians at the Canadiana
Building.
February 14 and February 21. Programmes to complement the exhibition
The Celtic Heritage. Treasa O'Driscoll and Douglas Stewart.
March 23. Dinosaur Day.
April 12, 19, 26. Luncheon and tour of the Canadiana Galleries.
April 19. Romarama.
May 2. Canadiana Identification Night.
May 8. New Members' Night.
May 13. Astronomy Club Day.
May 16. Kuumba. Black Poetry Festival.
May 18. International Museums Day. Films.
May 25. Annual Meeting, ROM Members' Committee.
May 31. Members' opening of the exhibition Austria Presents
Hundertwasser to the Continents.
June 23 to July 1. Metro International Caravan.
In addition to the events listed above, ROM facilities were used on a
regular or occasional basis throughout the year by such organizations and
clubs as the Walker Mineralogical Club, the Ontario Archaeological
Society, the Royal Astronomical Society, the Toronto Historical Society,
the Junior Field Naturalists, the Brody Club, and the Toronto
Entomological Society.
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and Grants
July 1, 1977 to June 30, 1978
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Art Gallery of Ontario
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Ms. Veronica Baird
Vivian Baker
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S. Bangard
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Dr. Evelyn Bateman
Mr. E. Gilbert Bauman
Mr. Harry Beaver
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Mr. Norman B. Bell
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Mr. Conrad Black
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